Creole townhouse

noun

A kind of French- and Spanish-influenced house found in New Orleans, characterized by courtyards, thick walls, arcades, cast-iron balconies, and steeply-pitched roofs with parapets, side-gabled, with several dormers.

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Meanings

nounCreole townhouse (plural Creole townhouses)

plural Creole townhouses

  1. A kind of French- and Spanish-influenced house found in New Orleans, characterized by courtyards, thick walls, arcades, cast-iron balconies, and steeply-pitched roofs with parapets, side-gabled, with several dormers.
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