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pied-à-terre

 noun
     
Related topics: House
pied-à-terre [countable]
DHH a small apartment or house, often in the centre of a city or town, that is not your main home but which you own and stay in sometimes:
They kept a pied-à-terre in London for theatre evenings.
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