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‖ pied à terre|pjedatɛr|
Pl. pieds à terre.
[Fr., lit. ‘foot on the ground’.]
A small town house, flat, or room used for short periods of residence; a ‘home base’.
1829Carlyle in Foreign Rev. III. vi. 445 She is perpetually travelling: a peaceful philosopher is lugged over the world, to Cirey, to Lunéville, to that pied à terre in Paris. 1838J. Pardoe Beauties of Bosphorus 20 The Greek emperor..acceded to the desire of Mahomet to possess a pied-à-terre on the European edge of the channel. 1870D. G. Rossetti Let. 15 Mar. (1965) II. 815, I have not yet written to thank you for a much more independent and promising pied-à-terre than I could have found in the tents of the stranger. 1901‘L. Malet’ Hist. R. Calmady v. i. 383 Richard Calmady had taken her husband's villa at Naples on lease, it offering, as he said, a convenient pied à terre to him while yachting along the adjacent coasts. 1926[see metroland]. 1927C. Connolly Let. Dec. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 316 It might help you to have a pied-à-terre. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling i. 7 Australia is still a land of change and Australians, generally, are a restless race, preferring a mere pied-à-terre before a taxable home-fire. 1958[see accommodation address s.v. accommodation 6 b]. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo vii. 114 They had given us a room in their own house which we were free to use as a pied-à-terre. 1977Wandsworth Borough News 7 Oct. 23/2 (Advt.), Ideal pied-a-terre—very reasonably priced studio flat in a detached Victorian property. |