semi-detached

semi-detached
   (of a house)
   sharing a party wall
   The standard English usage avoids direct mention of the fact that the house is not separate from its neighbour:
    And the novel's title was the first recorded use (in 1859) of the word 'semi-detached'. 'Double cottages' built with a shared party wall had been common in the eighteenth century. (F. Muir, 1990)

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