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farmhouse

American  
[fahrm-hous] / ˈfɑrmˌhaʊs /

noun

farmhouses plural
  1. a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.


farmhouse British  
/ ˈfɑːmˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. a house attached to a farm, esp the dwelling from which the farm is managed

  2. Also called: farmhouse loaf.  a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of farmhouse

First recorded in 1590–1600; farm + house

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Some of the vendors we sampled last year, including Sandoitchi and Farmhouse Kitchen Thai Cuisine, are back at Indio Central Market.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Mohammed Sarnwal, opened The Farmhouse restaurant in Coventry in 2008 and focuses on locally-sourced, farm-to-table ingredients.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

Along with museum groups like the Northern Slavery Collective and initiatives including DyckmanDiscovered, at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Manhattan, ReImagine Lefferts reminds New Yorkers that the North had slavery, too.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Every season's contestants are the binder holding this show together, but Sandro Farmhouse, Abdul Rehman Sharif and Syabira Yusoff kept us loyally engaged through these 10 episodes.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022

Named for a village near Bristol where farmer Joseph Harding first manufactured it, the best is still called Farmhouse Cheddar, but in America we have practically none of this.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton

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