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mansionette

mansionette noun: a large and somewhat luxurious house.

Noun

mansionette (plural mansionettes)

  1. (US) A large and somewhat luxurious house.
    • In the smaller plans of a "Mansionette near Wimbledon Park," "Semi-detached Houses," and "The Compact House built near Blackheath," we are not favoured with any scale.1860 July, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 80
    • Trading in their battered RV and Louisiana swamplands for a sumptuous pink mansionette with swimming pool, the Malloys pull off their ruse with skill and also childish naïveté.2007 March 12, Alessandra Stanley, “For This Family of Pros, the Con Is Everything”, in New York Times
  2. (UK) A flat that spans two or more floors, and often has its own entrance (i.e. not off a communal hallway).
    • gone to London to work and had left her mansionette flat empty. The mansionettes stood on high ground overlooking the docks.2014, Eoin McNamee, Blue is the Night

Forms of mansionette

pluralmansionettes

Origin of mansionette

From mansion + -ette. Doublet of maisonette.

Words that rhyme with mansionette

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Questions about mansionette

What does mansionette mean?
Mansionette means a large and somewhat luxurious house.
What part of speech is mansionette?
Mansionette is a noun.
What is the plural of mansionette?
The plural of mansionette is mansionettes.

Words near mansionette in the dictionary

  1. mansional
  2. mansionary
  3. mansioned
  4. mansioneer
  5. mansioneers
  6. mansionette
  7. mansionettes
  8. mansionization
  9. mansionless
  10. mansionlike
  11. mansionry

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