ground floor
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Ground-floor tickets generally cost around a dollar, while cheap seats in the upper balconies were usually just a dime, making vaudeville accessible to rich and poor alike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
Ground-floor vacancies remain high with 500 closures during the pandemic.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2023
Ground-floor spaces now flow into one linked bar and dining area, where low lighting gleams off polished wood and the patina of vintage-style leather sofas.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2019
Ground-floor bedroom: The builder, Toll Brothers, moved into the area in the late 1990s and opened Loudoun Valley in 2005.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2016
Ground-floor, Stevens, packing-case maker; first-floor, Hutt, agent in fancy-goods; second-floor, dunno.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur