homeletn.
/ˈhəʊmlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmlət/ A small home.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > very small dwelling
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a1838 J. Fitchett King Alfred (1842) VI. xliii. 139 Troops..in vestures green, whose homelets grace Savernake's spacious forest.
1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life (1857) 192 In the hilly parts..many tiny homelets of past ages still stand.
1884 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 3 Feb. 6/6 When the girllet reached her homelet, The old man met us late.
1939 J. Joyce in James Joyce Q. (1983) 55 Here is a homelet not a hothel.
2002 D. Ayres Other Girls xxxi. 269 No hotels, just homelets, little stores with awnings, eensy boutiques, tiny restaurants and taverns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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