[f. VILLA + -DOM.] The world of villas; suburban villas or their residents collectively. (Freq. in recent use.)

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1869.  Birmingham Jrnl., 6 Feb., 7/2. The shutters are plain outside shutters, like those which are used in labourers’ cottages. These, again, are an utter abomination to villadom.

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1880.  Macm. Mag., May, 76. Respectable and well-to-do villadom in the suburban counties.

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1888.  Earl of Desart, Herne Lodge, I. i. 1. Oases in the desert of gorgeous villadom.

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1897.  S. S. Sprigge, Life Wakley, xxv. 233. The street still preserves many of the features of suburban villadom.

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  attrib.  1898.  Daily News, 2 March, 5/6. The roads … look to be of the lower villadom type.

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