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Definition of Maisonettes
1. maisonette [n] - See also: maisonette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maisonettes
Literary usage of Maisonettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering: A Handy Working by William Henry Maxwell (1910)
"maisonettes, or houses containing two or four separate dwellings, are not generally
unhealthy, but modern west-end " mansions " or flats should be avoided ..."
2. Corfu by Florian Fürst (2001)
"... grant discounts outside the high season months of July and August. Besides hotels.
Corfu offers guest houses, studios, maisonettes and apartments. ..."
3. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1902)
"These maisonettes are provided with bath-room, electric bells, gas, &c. On the
higher ground, small, middle-class houses wilh seven rooms let at ..."
4. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"... in quaint rooms, in audacious balconies, in mediaeval-looking dormers, in
peaked roofs, in maisonettes tinted lemon-yellow, pale rose, or faint green; ..."
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