Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
bungalow (n.)
India gave us this word, originally a one-story house with a wide veranda; early in the twentieth century in the United States an imitation of that bungalow became very popular and bore the same name; it was low, with dormer-windowed attic and a full front porch under the full front-to-rear gabled roof.
