barnlike
Americanadjective
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The house had a wagon-wheel chandelier and barnlike rafters — and a high ceiling that Rogers had raised while his wife was traveling abroad so he could practice roping indoors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
The barnlike environs of the Lunt-Fontanne prove to be one of Broadway’s less accommodating spaces for savoring Sondheim’s intricate lyrics and Jonathan Tunick’s timeless orchestrations.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2023
For a primary suite in the barnlike addition to one house, Wright chose barn board with knots to create rustic-looking ceilings.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
At 6:42 p.m., officers found Mr. Thompson on a property that had what investigators described as two barnlike structures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
How could she say she could see hardly anything in the morning gloom of the huge, barnlike room, the very air a soup of dust and lint?
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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