John:
There are lots of great examples of lanai on historic buildings. I will
send you back channel a jpg of probably the first one, a c1835 meeting
hall and a great residence from the 1930s.
A lanai is a covered space with open sides usually attached to a house
or building. It is used interchangeably here for porch, [actually no
one says porch] but to spell it correctly in Hawaiian it needs a
horizontal mark over the first "a". The Hawaiian root word is "la"
meaning sun. You can throw away that Latin dictionary.
Spencer
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