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PIED-A-TERRE (pieds-a-terre)
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Irregular inflected form: pieds-a-terre
Dictionary entry overview: What does pied-a-terre mean?
• PIED-A-TERRE (noun)
The noun PIED-A-TERRE has 1 sense:
1. lodging for occasional or secondary use
Familiarity information: PIED-A-TERRE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lodging for occasional or secondary use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Context example:
they bought a pied-a-terre in London
Hypernyms ("pied-a-terre" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
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