Definition of Maisonettes

1. Noun. (plural of maisonette) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Maisonettes

1. maisonette [n] - See also: maisonette

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maisonettes

maiolica
maiolicas
maior et sanior pars
mair
mairatour
maire
maires
mairs
maise
maise factor
maise oil
maises
maison de tolérance
maisonette
maisonettes (current term)
maisonnette
maisonneuve fracture
maisons de tolérance
maist
maister
maistered
maisters
maistre
maistres
maistress
maistrie
maistries
maistry
maists

Literary usage of Maisonettes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering: A Handy Working by William Henry Maxwell (1910)
"maisonettes, or houses containing two or four separate dwellings, are not generally unhealthy, but modern west-end " mansions " or flats should be avoided ..."

2. Corfu by Florian Fürst (2001)
"... grant discounts outside the high season months of July and August. Besides hotels. Corfu offers guest houses, studios, maisonettes and apartments. ..."

3. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1902)
"These maisonettes are provided with bath-room, electric bells, gas, &c. On the higher ground, small, middle-class houses wilh seven rooms let at ..."

4. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"... in quaint rooms, in audacious balconies, in mediaeval-looking dormers, in peaked roofs, in maisonettes tinted lemon-yellow, pale rose, or faint green; ..."

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