bungalow

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Just in front of our bungalow was a beautiful stretch of water that provided for some outstanding skindiving, but also some strong currents.

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  1. noun A small house or cottage usually having a single story and sometimes an additional attic story.
  2. noun A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide verandah.

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  • But the answer came Aqui The interior layout of the bungalow was the same as Bianca's. —  FSF,December2007
  • The dinghy which went with the hiring of the bungalow was already in the tiny staithe by the side of the lawn and its short, heavy oars were lying in the bottom of the boat. —  Wraiths And Changelings-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 53
  • The distance from the Holly Tree to the bungalow is a very short one. —  Vanishing Point - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 24: 1953
  • We had just settled down when word came we were to occupy the Deputy-Commissioner's bungalow which is apparently empty, so we only had tiffin in the Dak bungalow CHAPTER XXXII The D. C. Bungalow is certainly very nice, bar The Mystery_. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
  • Behind the bungalow was a small barn and also a fair-sized woodshed and close by was a small building which Gif explained to them was used in the summer time for a kitchen Gif was the first out of the boxsled, and he lost no time in unlocking the front door for the party. —  The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods
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  1. Hindi baṅglā, Bengali, bungalow.

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  1. Anglo-Indian, from Hindustani banglā (Persian bānglā), a thatched cottage, a bungalow, literally belonging to Bengal, Bengalese (house), from Banga, Bengal. Cf. Bengali.
 

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