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plural bungalows
A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space. quotations examples
Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur
A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style. quotations examples
Following the rule adopted in most tropical countries, a bungalow style of house was chosen.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 110