Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small villa or residence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A small villa.
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Examples
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I've got a new thing running in my head this very minute that you shall hear though, all the same, as soon as I've hammered it into shape -- a sort of villanette in music, a little whiff of country freshness, suggested by the new ethereal acquisition, little Miss Butterfly.
Philistia Grant Allen 1873
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