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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Origin of farmhouse
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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 rushed back from a farmhouse holiday with friends, scrambling to retrieve the notes and textbooks he had already given to younger students in case he had to sit the exam again.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
In “God Knows Where I Am,” Linda Bishop, diagnosed variously as having “bipolar disorder with psychosis” or schizoaffective disorder, drifts “between shelters, hospitals, and jail” before finding refuge in a deserted farmhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Charles Post and Rachel Pohl are trading a remote Norwegian archipelago for Montana and putting their farmhouse on the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Or he could have stopped at a farmhouse to get us something warm to eat.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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
Along a remote stretch of the north Somerset coast, views of rolling hills and farmhouses are suddenly interrupted by a thicket of construction cranes.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
The roughly 3,500-square-foot residence was built in 1948, decades before the McMansion trend — to say nothing of the faux farmhouses that now dot Brentwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
There are patchworks of orchards and crops, all shades of green, spotted with cows and farmhouses.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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