cottage orné

English

Alternative forms

• cottage ornée

Noun

cottage orné (plural cottages ornés)

1. (now historical) A small country or suburban residence, typically with verandahs and French windows.
   • 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago, published 2014, page 53:

     After a mile or so there branched from it a private road which followed a line of noble poplars that led to the pretentiously simple porch of a cottage ornée called ‘The Hut’.

   • 2012, Andrew Ballantyne, Andrew Law, Tudoresque, page 139:

     The cottage orné would be used by gentlefolk with education and a poetic sensibility, who would visit for part of the year and would need accommodation for at least one servant.