"Dutch billy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently derived from a nickname for William III, on account of the houses' Dutch appearance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Dutch billies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Dutch billies"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch billy (plural Dutch billies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Thomas Drew, “Unhealthiness of Dublin Barracks”, in The Builder, volume 56, number 2398, page 54",
          "text": "They were ready to be superseded on their sites at the end of the seventeeth century by what we call the \"Dutch Billy\" houses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Frank McDonald, “Dutch Billy 18th century houses at risk”, in The Irish Times",
          "text": "The term Dutch Billy refers to gable-fronted houses built in the late 17th and early 18th centuries – not just in Dublin, but also Cork, Drogheda, Limerick and Waterford – by waves of Huguenot and Quaker immigrants as well as tradesmen from Britain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, David Dickson, Dublin: The Making of a Capital City, Harvard University Press, page 86",
          "text": "With the adoption of brick earlier in the century, \"Dutch billies\" became the common house-type, with gable-fronted facades, cruciform roof ridges, shallow windows without sashes, tight stairwells, small halls and floor-to-ceiling panelling, more elaborate houses displaying curved or stepped front gables.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of rowhouse with distinctive curved gables, formerly common in Dublin and other Irish towns."
      ],
      "id": "en-Dutch_billy-en-noun-wu6Mvq0L",
      "links": [
        [
          "rowhouse",
          "rowhouse"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "William III of England"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dutch billy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently derived from a nickname for William III, on account of the houses' Dutch appearance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Dutch billies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Dutch billies"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch billy (plural Dutch billies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Thomas Drew, “Unhealthiness of Dublin Barracks”, in The Builder, volume 56, number 2398, page 54",
          "text": "They were ready to be superseded on their sites at the end of the seventeeth century by what we call the \"Dutch Billy\" houses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Frank McDonald, “Dutch Billy 18th century houses at risk”, in The Irish Times",
          "text": "The term Dutch Billy refers to gable-fronted houses built in the late 17th and early 18th centuries – not just in Dublin, but also Cork, Drogheda, Limerick and Waterford – by waves of Huguenot and Quaker immigrants as well as tradesmen from Britain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, David Dickson, Dublin: The Making of a Capital City, Harvard University Press, page 86",
          "text": "With the adoption of brick earlier in the century, \"Dutch billies\" became the common house-type, with gable-fronted facades, cruciform roof ridges, shallow windows without sashes, tight stairwells, small halls and floor-to-ceiling panelling, more elaborate houses displaying curved or stepped front gables.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of rowhouse with distinctive curved gables, formerly common in Dublin and other Irish towns."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rowhouse",
          "rowhouse"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "William III of England"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dutch billy"
}