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Today's Word "pied-a-terre"

A temporary or second place of lodging on

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pied-a-terre \pee-ay-duh-TAIR; pyay-dah-TAIR\ (noun) - A temporary or second place of lodging.

"Hay Hill is just a pied-a- terre, they like to say, a pied-a-terre with a dining room and drawing room, a library (for him) and a little study (for her)." -- Giles Waterfield, 'The Hound in the Left-hand Corner'

 

Pied-a-terre is from French, literally "foot to the ground."


 

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