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‖ maisonette|meɪzəˈnɛt|
Also maisonnette.
[ad. Fr. maisonnette, diminutive of maison house. The correct spelling with -nn- is rarely found.]
1. A small house.
1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 27 The Charlevilles have exchanged their maisonette in Berkeley Square for Queensberry House. 1880Ouida Moths I. 234 They all lived in a little maisonette in the park.
2. A part of a residential building which is let separately, usu. distinguished from a flat by not being all on one floor.
1912Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 144/2 Flats or maisonettes, such as Queen Anne's Mansions, Westminster, London. 1919T. S. Eliot Whispers of Immortality in Poems, Grishkin has a maisonette. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay ix. 129 ‘It's a dr-dreadful little maisonnette,’ she explained. ‘Full of awful things. We had to take it furnished.’ 1957New Yorker 5 Oct. 171/1 Le Corbusier wisely utilized the type of apartment the English call the maisonette, with a narrow private stairs to connect upper and lower rooms. 1959Times 28 May 13/5 To-day one sees maisonnettes advertised as such but also covering a range of separate living accommodation from the hotch potch of the converted house to the modern slab block of flats. 1961L. Mumford City in Hist. Note to plate 51, The London County Council's Roehampton estate, with its mixture of tower apartments and lower houses and maisonettes. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem iii. 22 Why did wretched house agents insist upon using not the word rooms, nor apartment, nor even flat, but the atrocious maisonette? |