Definition of "maisonnette" [maisonnette]

• A small house (noun)
• A self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I suppose the ground allotted to the garden of your maisonnette is marked out, and probably will be enclosed and broken up before the foundation of your mansion is laid; therefore to encourage M. d'Arblay in the study of horticulture, I have the honour to send him Miller's 'Gardener's Dictionary' - an excellent book, at least for the rudiments of the art."
• "This late in the evening, I could not yet make out the charming maisonnette* that was to be our rental for the next seven days."
• "In the cave of an old maisonnette at the exterior of the town I now scripture these words with sharp charcoal derived from a dead fire in the back garden."