单词 | houselet |
释义 | houseletn. A small house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > small house mousetrap1727 cottage1765 maisonette1785 houselet1802 matchbox1920 1802 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 410 The squeezed cabin-parloured houselets of Dover. 1859 All Year Round 30 Apr. 18/2 These residences of the wind stretch out on the Pearl River to Whampoa and Macao, as our rows of clerks' houselets do to Woolwich and Gravesend on the living stream of the railway. 1904 J. Blyth Celibate Sarah i. 37 About a mile up the Ipswich Road is a semi-detached houselet called ‘The Limes’. 1923 P. Rosenfeld Musical Chron. 28 The afternoon sky over the iron and chimneys and houselets of the Jersey bluffs. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 71 This Edwardian house is split into two-bed flats and two houselets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1802 |
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