mazetn.
/ˈmazeɪ/, U.S. /mæˈzeɪ/ In southern France: a small building used for shelter on a farm; a farm cottage, esp. one used as a holiday home.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > other types of house
houseOE
showernc1175
house of fencec1425
abbey1665
park1750
trust house1751
subhouse1771
hurley-house1814
bure1843
ideal home1854
tholtan1856
picture house1858
village-house1862
tumble-down1866
tree-house1867
mazet1873
riad1881
slaughterhouse1899
whare puni1911
mas1912
social housing1928
quadruplex1939
share house1945
starter home1948
show house1957
painted lady1978
self-build1978
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des res1986
common house1989
1873 Catholic World Oct. 108 His greatest relaxation was an hour spent..in his mazet, an enclosed garden with a little dwelling attached, in which were a sitting-room and a kitchen, but no bed-rooms.
1911 P. S. Allen Let. 24 Apr. (1939) 95 Today we had a jolly walk among the ‘mazets’ which surround Nîmes.
1969 L. Durrell in A. G. Thomas Spirit of Place 132 Durrell..moved to another home, a mazet just outside Nîmes... A mazet is a peasant cottage on a small piece of ground akin to a smallholding.
1991 Daily Tel. 17 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) p. i/6 One could buy a mazet very cheaply.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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