black house

noun

1. a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland

Example Sentences

He lay in the big bedroom of the black house, and waited for the caressing hand of Death.

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Bedstefar's black house was decorated too, and the whole courtyard was covered with sprigs of juniper and fir.

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Elsie entered the little Black House on the hill for the first time since her trip at the age of twelve, some eight years before.

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At once Freddie became fired with the desire to rush to a store, purchase a doll, and send it off to the little "black house."

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I see away up the river what looks like a leetle black house, with a white thing on the roof.

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