单词 | ranchette |
释义 | ranchetten. U.S. 1. A small ranch; a relatively large plot of land, esp. in a rural area, containing an individual dwelling, (now) esp. one formed by subdividing a large ranch. ΚΠ 1927 San Antonio (Texas) Express 1 Sept. 13/6 (advt.) Ranchette..600 acres. 1939 Los Angeles Times 6 Apr. ii. 16/6 John Litel has installed an elaborate underground sprinkling system on his six-acre Encino ranchette. 1974 H. S. Thompson Let. 5 Dec. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 601 The mesa above my house..is about to be zoned for 2-acre ‘ranchettes’, which makes the current price around $500,000. 1992 Prime Time (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Oct. 23/4 Upscale types who fly into places like Montana and buy a 20-acre ranchette and build a little cabin to visit once or twice a year. 2004 New Yorker 26 July 77/1 The widows dumped the cows and called up the real-estate brokers who sketched out thirty-five-acre ranchettes. 2. A small ranch-style house; cf. ranch house n. (b) at ranch n.2 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style hall-house1467 longhouse1643 bungalow1676 single housea1684 tower-house1687 villa1755 box1773 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 mews1805 cottage1808 terrace house1817 casita1822 villa dwelling1833 villa residence1833 box-house1846 six-roomer1853 terrace1854 tembe1860 moat house1871 parlour house1871 row house1871 salt-box1876 trullo1898 townhouse1900 colonial1903 semi1912 Cape Cod1916 bungaloid1927 semi-detached1928 ranchette1938 solar house1946 rambler1947 rancher1950 ranch1951 tunnel-back1957 sidesplit1958 two-up-and-two-downer1958 two-up two-down1958 semi-det1960 A-frame1963 townhouse1965 tri-level1965 link house1968 split1970 dormer bungalow1977 1938 Los Angeles Times 9 June ii. 17 (advt.) Cozy mod. ranchette, fence, 75 x 270. 1956 R. A. Heinlein in Mag. of Fantasy & Sci. Fict. Oct. 23/2 I wanted a ranchette near the plant; she favored a flat in Town. 1994 New Yorker 21 Feb. 49/1 There are acres of Douglas-fir forest..and ranchettes on lawns of chunky red mulch, and squat new apartment complexes. 2006 J. Sher & W. Marsden Angels of Death iii. 68 He reported that the Hells Angels leader had ‘settled down in a ranchette near Phoenix..with a pretty young wife’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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