Category:Veranda

Ve*ran"da, n. Etym: [a word brought by the english from india; of Uncertain origin; cf. Skr. vara, pg. varanda, sp. baranda, malay Baranda.] (arch.)

Defn: an open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, Forming an out-of-door sitting room. See loggia. The house was of adobe, low, with a wide veranda on the three sides Of the inner court. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.