What is "maisonette"

Usage examples of "maisonette".

The low-rise maisonette blocks which take its place are like a thousand others in London: built in the sixties, four storeys high and flat-roofed.

The maisonette is as cramped as the one which they have just left, though less cared for and with cheap furnishings which have not stood up to continued use.

She hurried down the stairs in the Belgrave Square maisonette, where she and Winston had been staying for the weekend, heading in the direction of the study.

She slammed the heavy exterior glass-and-wrought-iron door behind her, climbed the short circular staircase that led up to the front entrance of the maisonette, and let herself in with her key.

Louise was reflecting that she could sell it and buy a maisonette or flat for much less, anywhere she chose, needing no mortgage, invest the rest and live off the income.

Polly lived in a studio-style maisonette and had set the rent accordingly.

I took Joan back to Cincinnati, bought her dinner at La Maisonette, tried not to faint when I saw the tab, and drove her over to my apartment.

The young woman became incapably drunk on the way home, so I pushed her inside her dinky little maisonette in Garlic Mews and tucked her up on a divan in the sitting-room to astonish her maid in the morning.

It was the same house in which he had long occupied a modest bachelor flat, but on his marriage he had taken, in addition, the flat above his own, and thus possessed what was, in effect, a seven-roomed maisonette, although, on account of a fiddling L.

Ross lived in a maisonette on the first floor of a house in a big square in Kensington.

A safer course might be to outwit her by dodging amongst the labyrinth of garages, maisonettes and tower blocks.

He stares across the lawns to the tower blocks soaring above the jostling maisonettes, factories and warehouses.

The mew with its granite setts takes them away from the tower blocks and maisonettes to a world of gentrified Victorian cottages converted from stables, and flat-roofed, architect-designed houses in wood and yellow brick, with living room windows on the first floor extending the width of the frontage.

Not, that was, until they toured their area in detail, and found weedy grass where they had paid for, among other things, six stories of flats for low-income families, a cul-de-sac of maisonettes for single pensioners, and two roadfuls of semidetached bungalows for the retired and handicapped.

The Bogside was a maze of sixties-style concrete and-glass flats and maisonettes linked by alleyways and dead ends.