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A pied-à-terre (French pronunciation: [pje.t‿a tɛʁ], plural: pieds-à-terre; French for "foot on the ground") is a small living unit, e.g., apartment or condominium, often located in a large city and not used as an individual's primary residence. The term implies use of the property as a temporary second residence, but not a vacation home ...
Gîte du Volcan in Réunion. A gîte or gite (French pronunciation:) is, typically, a holiday rental home in France, but there are many interpretations of the term 'gîte'.'. They range from a gîtes d'etape — a hostel, for walkers and cyclists — to a gîte rural, a holiday home in the country available for rent, often an accessory dwelling
Derived words include: the verb kotter ("to kot"), which means to rent and inhabit a kot, usually only during the week; the nouns kotteur and kotteuse refer to the tenant of a kot and often by extension to every student living outside the family home; the nouns cokotteur or cokotier and cokotteuse (or cokotière), which mean flatmate.
A pension (UK: / ˈ p ɒ̃ s j ɒ̃ /, US: / p ɒ n ˈ s j oʊ n /; [1] French: [pɑ̃sjɔ̃] ⓘ) [2] is a type of guest house or boarding house. This term is typically used in Continental European countries, in areas of North Africa and the Middle East that formerly had large European expatriate populations, and in some parts of South America ...
A lower-rise apartment building on the left side of the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, juxtaposed next to a skyscraper apartment building. An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English) [a], or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building ...
crouton, from the diminutive form of the old French word croust, (later to come into modern French as the word croûte), meaning 'crust'. crown , Anglo-Fr. coroune , from Old Fr. corone , compare Mod. Fr. couronne
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The name penthouse is derived from apentis, an Old French word meaning "attached building" or "appendage". The modern spelling is influenced by a 16th-century folk etymology that combines the Middle French word for "slope" (pente) with the English noun house (the meaning at that time was "attached building with a sloping roof or awning").