buitenplaats
Literally ‘outside place’, Dutch for a small country house or retreat. Common in the 17th c., buitenplaatsen or buitenhuizen were summer homes for merchants/burghers, easily accessible from towns and often sited along the banks of rivers such as the Amstel, Becht, etc. By the end of the 18th c. many buitenplaatsen had been built, set in gardens (often with ‘stiff parterres’, as Beckford described them). (Curl & Wilson, 2016)