Definitions
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- n. A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.
Etymologies
Examples
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And if that's so, the president also needs to stay in town instead of rushing off to clear that poor brush again on his "ranchette" set in Waco and negotiate in good faith to protect the American people.
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After hearing me rant about the proliferation of 5- acre "ranchette" subdivisions surrounding Magdalena, Mary Zeiss Stange sent me a wonderful essay she had published on the subject in USA Today!
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The hordes of coastal suburbanites who are buying up former ranchland in "ranchette" subdivisions LOVE this weather, even as wildlife, ranchers,and stock all suffer and the Forest Service who have deliberately or accidentally set every fire in the two nearest ranges in the last three years forbid the public use of their forests, even if we do not set fires.
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Although, 90 acres in our country is a "ranchette", not a ranch.
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And the fellows who swiped new snowmachines, because their old ones would no longer make the ten-mile trip in and out of their "ranchette", are probably still living at state expense just outside town.
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But such problems and protests are not likely to stop the encroachment -- ranchette life is just too good.
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"It's carving us up and turningus into a checkerboard of 35acre lots," said Mike Maag, manager of ranchette-rich Douglas County, south of Denver.
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The problem has become so acute that a Colorado state senator has just moved to restrict ranchette development; Gov.
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We got it for free from a friend who has a ranchette!
The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Parasols? Or Parasails?!
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Three of us representatives of different levels of government, supposedly here to answer questions from the expected crowd of ranchette owners.
bilby commented on the word ranchette
A dollopino of ranch dressing. Just enough for a slider.
August 10, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word ranchette
I didn't realize this was a word! I'd think of this as, say, an acreage.
August 10, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word ranchette
I can't imagine anyone referring to their ranch as a ranchette. It sounds just as demeaning as the suffix -ette added to many "female" words.
August 10, 2015