minipalace

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mini- +‎ palace

Noun[edit]

minipalace (plural minipalaces)

  1. (colloquial) A small palatial building.
    • 2015 November 9, Andy Beckett, “The economics of scale: how housing became Britain’s biggest political issue”, in The Guardian[1]:
      There can be something absurd or even melancholy about the open-plan minipalaces some middle-class Britons consider essential for civilised living.