It may sound a little supercilious to say so, but one is seldom, in my experience, lexically trumped by an estate agent. But this week in the Ludlow Advertiser, John Amos & Co of Leominster are offering:

“A Quillet of Woodland extending to 1.70 acres situated at Bryneddin Wood, Chapel Lawn, Bucknell [Salop].”

The shorter OED offers only one definition of a ‘quillet’: A verbal nicety or subtlety.

Either John Amos & Co are deploying a metaphor of such subtlety it’s escaped me, or they’ve unearthed a term so long buried in the culture of the Welsh Marches that it has been lost to the lexicographers.

They certainly didn’t find it in the standard dictionary of estate-agent-speak, which deserves commendation.

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