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A modern Indian bungalow in an affluent area near Bangalore, Karnataka, India The Manale Tea Bungalow, one of the oldest bungalows in Kerala, India In India, the term bungalow or villa refers to any single-family unit, as opposed to an apartment building , which is the norm for Indian middle-class city living.
A gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables. A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A. Chalet: a gablefront house built into a mountainside with a wide sloping roof
Some rooms in a bungalow typically have doors that link them together. Bungalows may feature a flat roof. In British English, it refers to any single-storey house (much rarer in the UK than in the US). Villa, a term originating from Roman times when it was used to refer to a large house which one might retreat to in the country.
A cottage, during England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or bordar) of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord. [1] However, in time cottage just became the general term for a small house.
The dak bungalow above Narkanda in 1868 "A floating dâk-bungalow in difficulties", c. 1880 A "dak bungalow " in Kenya, c. 1900. The term was sometimes applied to similar structures throughout the British Empire. A dak bungalow, dak-house or dâk-bungalow was a government building in British India under Company Rule and the Raj.
Bungalow court, a style of multi-family housing developed in Pasadena, California, in the 1910s; Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena, California, a neighbourhood; The Bungalow on the Beach, a 17th-century house built by the Governor of Danish India, now a hotel, in Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu, India. The Bungalow Mystery (1930), a novel in the Nancy Drew ...
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In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies. Many entered English during the British Raj in colonial India. These borrowings, dating back to the colonial period, are often labeled as "Anglo ...