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pied-à-terre
[ pee-ey-duh-tair, -dah-, pyey- ]
noun
- a residence, as an apartment, for part-time or temporary use.
pied-à-terre
/ ˌpjeɪtɑːˈtɛə /
noun
- a flat, house, or other lodging for secondary or occasional use
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Origin of pied-à-terre1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
People are still far more likely to buy a million dollar pied à terre in Manhattan than to do so in Oklahoma City.
"No one is fair when hunting the pied-à-terre," I reminded her.
They were nearing her first pied-à-terre as a married woman.
The house in Wilton Street was a small bijou place which my father had occupied as a pied-à-terre in town, he being a widower.
He liked to point out to his friends that he rented a palatial mansion for what a pied-à-terre in Mayfair would have cost him.
This p. 93would be very agreeable, and serve as a pied à terre in the desert, quite independent of all the world.
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