semi-detachment

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ detachment, after semi-detached.

Noun

semi-detachment (uncountable)

  1. The state of being semi-detached.
    • 1933, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Penguin, published 2005, page 23:
      Not only in its name, Glen Bank, and its white-painted semi-detachment, but in its hunting pictures and Marcus Stone engravings, its plush curtains, its mahogany furniture and its scarcity of books, our Macclesfield house represented all that was essentially middle-class in that Edwardian decade.
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