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Unoriginal article found in Roman dwelling (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vanilla

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'roman dwelling' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.

'unoriginal article found in' is the wordplay.
'unoriginal' becomes 'villa' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'found in' is an insertion indicator.
'villa' enclosing 'an' is 'VANILLA'.

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(Other definitions for vanilla that I've seen before include "Common ice cream flavour" , "conventional" , "Subtle flavour pod" , "Common flavour for ices" , "Ordinary" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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