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Definition of pied-à-terre noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

pied-à-terre

noun

NAmE//ˌpyeɪd ə ˈtɛr//

(pl. pieds-à-terre

NAmE//ˌpyeɪd əˈtɛr//

) (from French)

a small apartment, usually in a city, that you do not live in as your main home but keep for use when necessary They live in Canada but have a pied-à-terre in New York.

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