cottage orné

plural cottages ornés · alternative cottage ornée

1. historicalA small country or suburban residence, typically with verandahs and French windows.

   The cottage orné would be used by gentlefolk with education and a poetic sensibility, who would visit for part of the year and would need accommodation for at least one servant.

   2012, Andrew Ballantyne, Andrew Law, Tudoresque, page 139

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   After a mile or so there branched from it a private road which followed a line of noble poplars that led to the pretentiously simple porch of a cottage ornée called ‘The Hut’.

   1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago, published 2014, page 53