mansionette
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French mansionette ("little house").
mansion + -ette
Noun
mansionette (plural mansionettes)
- (US) A large and somewhat luxurious house.
- 2007 March 12, Alessandra Stanley, “For This Family of Pros, the Con Is Everything”, in New York Times:
- Trading in their battered RV and Louisiana swamplands for a sumptuous pink mansionette with swimming pool, the Malloys pull off their ruse with skill and also childish naïveté.
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- (Britain) A flat that spans two or more floors, and often has its own entrance (i.e. not off a communal hallway).
- 2014, Eoin McNamee, Blue is the Night:
- gone to London to work and had left her mansionette flat empty. The mansionettes stood on high ground overlooking the docks.
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See also
- maisonette
- mansion