pied-à-terre
Example Sentences
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The couple split their time between their Bel-Air estate, their New York pied-à-terre and a seven-bedroom, circa-1930s beach house they owned in Malibu.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Projection designers Yee Eun Nam and Elizabeth Barrett create a kaleidoscopic background on Chika Shimizu’s pied-à-terre set.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
Mikhail acquired a pied-à-terre in Paris, where he felt he “ceased to be a tourist and became a human being.”
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2022
Oxman and his wife, artist Laney K. Oxman, live in Virginia and planned to renovate the apartment to use as a pied-à-terre.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021
I keep on my quarters in town," continues your hostess, "principally as a pied-à-terre.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
