tumbledown
Britishadjective
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A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2023
“Battle of Blair Mt.,” it says, informing the tumbledown cinder block building across the road that here, 100 years ago, was the largest armed labor uprising in U.S. history.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
Circling the hill were tumbledown stables and something resembling a demolished chicken roost.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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