farmhouse
Americannoun
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farmhouses
plural
noun
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a house attached to a farm, esp the dwelling from which the farm is managed
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Also called: farmhouse loaf. a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
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She married Bill Darrid, a writer-producer, and we moved into a three-bedroom farmhouse in Westport, Conn. I finally had a father who listened to me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In rural Holguín province, about 420 miles east of Havana, she visited Castro’s childhood home, a rambling wooden farmhouse that is now a national monument and museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Inside, the modern farmhouse blends Dewan and Kazee’s contrasting design tastes, pairing sleek contemporary elements with warmer and more personal touches.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Their farmhouse was already old when I first saw it in 1966, complete with a chicken coop out back.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
He wondered what Victoria Forester was doing at the moment and decided that she was probably asleep, in her bed, in her bedroom, in her father's farmhouse.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
The detached single-family house has been the great constant of American life, from the saltbox farmhouses of 17th-century New England to the modern mansions of 2020s suburbia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
She never even got to clunk and thud her way through any farmhouses or laboratories like a bewigged bull in a china shop.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
The foreground is a scar of denuded earth, storage tanks and bobbing pumpjacks — the legacy of oil discovered a century ago when only farmhouses were scattered over the surrounding flatlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Those traditional farmhouses are still functioning, the green fields around the village are home not just to new houses, but to dairy cows, complete with bells around their necks.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023
Many of the farmhouses they’d passed were two stories high, but this was one story.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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