countryseat
a country mansion or estate, especially one belonging to a distinguished family and large enough to accommodate house parties, hunt meetings, etc.
Origin of countryseat
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How to use countryseat in a sentence
So I made him come down with me to Englehart, that dear old country seat of my family in the Western shires which was now mine.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThey owned their house, besides having a country seat at l'Isle Adam.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheLife at the Princes country-seat seemed to Tchaikovsky like a fairy tale.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyThis country attracted Tennyson, and here he built his country seat, which he called Aldworth.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyHere is one among many; it is a reminiscence of my visit in a country seat not far from Edinburgh.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'Rell
British Dictionary definitions for country seat
a large estate or property in the country
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