villa
/ˈvɪlə/ noun C2- A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
Plural villae
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The house of the famous official was a fine villa with green lawns stretching down to the Thames.
“This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it.
A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured.
In the light of a street lamp we read “Laburnum Villa” upon the gate-post of one of them.
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