floorwise
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
floorwise (not comparable)
- (poetic, nonce word) Like a floor.
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Drama of Exile”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:
- While our feet struck glories / Outward, smooth and fair, / Which we stood on floorwise, / Platformed in mid air.
Adjective[edit]
floorwise (not comparable)
- (India, nonstandard) Based on, or in terms of, the floor.
- floorwise building plans; floorwise area calculations