villadom

Something of the same swift desolation must have come upon the Campagna and the villadom of the Bay of Naples during the ebb of Roman vitality, but this had been a swifter decline.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Oxford — between lights, like all towns, at its worst — seemed to say: “Doomed to villadom, cars, and modernity, I am beyond your aid.”

Over the River 2004

Mr. RILEY'S Yorkshiremanship, but I do think he has under-estimated the difficulty of localising the peculiar genius of villadom.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920 Various

A mile further west, beyond Wallington, which in spite of embracing villadom still keeps an old inn and a pretty, shaded green, is

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

The fish-cart, helped by half a crown to the driver, took me past the outlying small-villadom, between long lines of workmen's houses, to narrow cobbled lanes and the purlieus of great factories.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

"Far from all the prettinesses of glorified villadom."

Gossamer 1915 George A. Birmingham 1907

Before a train could get to any villadom with a cargo of season-ticket holders it would have to circle about this rescued woodland and travel for twenty unprofitable miles, and so once you are away from the main Great Eastern lines Essex still lives in the peace of the eighteenth century, and

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

They do something to the old places -- I don't know what they do -- but instantly the countryside becomes a villadom.

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

No, I should be bored and cold, and the coffins would get on my nerves; and besides, there is something suggestive of smug villadom in the idea of going to die at Highgate.

Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896