half-timbered

American  

[haf-tim-berd, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈtɪm bərd, ˈhɑf- /

Or half-timber

adjective

1. (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.

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half-timbered British  

adjective

1. (of a building, wall, etc) having an exposed timber framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in Tudor architecture

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Other Word Forms

• half-timbering
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of half-timbered

First recorded in 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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half-timbered

Leica makes its lenses and assembles most of its cameras—including all its flagship M-series—in two factories, one in Portugal and another at its birthplace in Wetzlar, a hilltop village of half-timbered houses north of Frankfurt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Opposite a carved wooden water pump, built to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, near to the old Post Office and nestling next to a pink half-timbered teashop, is the Woolpit Institute.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023

Described by locals as the biggest protest in recent history, around 2,000 people from Pont-Audemer and its surrounding villages marched through the town, passing the now-closed foundry and traditional half-timbered houses.

From Reuters ● Mar. 8, 2023

His government bus took him to Strasbourg, a city of half-timbered houses on the German border and seat of the European Parliament.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2021

Through the shadows the old ship's-lantern cast in the rude half-timbered room seemed to move the wild figures of that marvellous pageant of conquest which began in 1492.

From Days of the Discoverers by Florence Choate

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