Cape cottage, noun phrase

A small whitewashed house commonly found in the Western Cape, typically featuring a gabled and thatched or corrugated iron roof, and associated with Cape Dutch architectural style. Cf. Cape Dutch sense B 2.
[1995 Cape Times 11 Aug. 12Called Cape Cottages, the book deals in a broad, easily readable way with the cottages of the Cape built largely by and for the indigenous inhabitants.]
1995 Cape Times 28 July (Property Times) 7 (advertisement)Hermanus character Cape Cottage – bargain!
2013 homemag.co.za (DSAE Corpus)Historically, the Cape cottage consisted of two sections: the living and cooking section and the family and sleeping unit.
2014 webfrenzy.co.za (DSAE Corpus)The Cape cottage may be seen as a forerunner to both Cape Dutch architecture as well as the more humble flat roofed house of the southern African interior.
A small whitewashed house commonly found in the Western Cape, typically featuring a gabled and thatched or corrugated iron roof, and associated with Cape Dutch architectural style.
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