farmhouse
Americannoun
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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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
“After raising their kids in this home, Katherine and Josh decided to move into their newly restored farmhouse within the area, starting a new chapter for their family as their children get older,” he reveals.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
My acute distress flared up after my wife and I split up and I moved out of our farmhouse in upstate New York to a sparsely furnished apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Despite ostensibly being about a world-famous pop star mounting a major comeback, David Lowery’s latest film, “Mother Mary,” rarely leaves the confines of the drafty farmhouse it’s set in.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Her stepfather's farmhouse is the opposite of posh.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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 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
Their houses and barns and haystacks, and the unsuspected secret passages inside the big farmhouses, were called depots and stations.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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