splanch
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Blend of split-level + ranch.
Noun
[edit]splanch (plural splanches)
- (US, architecture) A house with three levels inside a two-level skin.
- 2005, Mathias B. Freese, The i Tetralogy, page 213:
- We barely see the world at such a level, for we are surburbing in our splanches, looking for ledges to set down our plastic menorahs for all the gentiles to see.