ranchette
nounEtymology From ranch + -ette.
1
A small ranch or large home lot, often on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area and just past the planned neighborhoods, consisting of 40 acres and a house and possibly a barn or other outbuildings.
- There are trace elements of ranchettes all the way to St. Cloud, the Stearns County seat.2001 August 26, Garrison Keillor, “In Search of Lake Wobegon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: