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villakin|ˈvɪləkɪn|
[f. villa + -kin.]
A little villa; a villa-residence.
Chiefly in familiar or jocular use, or with some degree of disparagement.
1730Swift Let. to Gay 19 March, I writ lately to Mr. Pope: I wish you had a little Villakin in his neighbourhood. 1730Gay Let. to Swift 31 March, I am every day building villakins and have given over that of castles. 1805J. Almon Corr. Wilkes V. 79 In this cottage (or villakin, as he usually termed it) he passed the pleasantest hours which he had enjoyed since the period of his adversities. 1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 258 The villakin was transformed into a domestic paradise. 1883R. Broughton Belinda II. 159 Spick and span villas and villakins, each with its half acre of tennis-ground and double daisies. |