pied-à-terre
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- noun
- /ˌpiː.æˈtɛr/
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piso de paso
- She left one spring night with a dermatologist who owned a red sports car and a five-bedroom pied-à-terre in Reno.
Examples
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The couple loves their pied-à-terre in the city, which serves as a perfect retreat from their suburban home.
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The room could be small, she said, because he wouldn't want to take care of it; the smaller the better, just a pied-à-terre.
Fiction book (1992) -
And that my mother had sublet a tiny flat in New York, a pied-à-terre.
Fiction book (2002) -
She decided to rent a small pied-à-terre in the city for her weekend getaways.
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After years of saving, they finally bought a cozy pied-à-terre near their favorite museum.
Synonyms
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A casual word for a home often meaning a small apartment
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A small flat or house with its own private entrance, often in a larger building
A very small place to live with one or two rooms for one person
A small home on two floors with its own entrance often inside a larger building
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Etymology
The word pied-à-terre comes from French pied 'foot' and terre 'ground', literally 'foot on the ground', which makes you picture a small place to stop in a city. So a pied-à-terre is a small apartment you keep for short visits away from your main home.