Shotgun house

[James Smith]

Just stumbled upon this in Google Books.

In:
A Glossary of Colloquial and Popular French for the Use of English Readers:

En coup de fusil, long and narrow – e.g., un logement en coup de fusil.

No indication of this expression is antecedent to or derived from English "shotgun house".


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