PIED-A-TERRE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Pied-a-terre

... birth, his first experience of the city which he had only visited in his nurse's arms; and his delight in it was so great that the plan shaped itself in his father's mind of buying a house there, which should serve as 'pied-a-terre' for the family, but more especially as a home for him. Neither the health nor the energies of the younger Mr. Browning had ever withstood the influence of the London climate; a foreign element was undoubtedly present in his otherwise thoroughly English constitution. ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr