semi-detachment
English edit
Etymology edit
From semi- + detachment, after semi-detached.
Noun edit
- 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.