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
The red and white Victorian farmhouse had belonged to their friend, the late Steve Baker, who served as the city’s longtime historian and had packed the property with thousands of antique relics over his lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Clooneys purchased the sprawling $8.3 million farmhouse in France in 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 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
He revealed the fugitives were at Richard Garrett’s farmhouse and agreed to show the soldiers where they were.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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
From a window of one of those farmhouses, Shona Anderson looks out on to a view generations of families in the area thought might never exist.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
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
The rural post offices were mostly in farmhouses, my Grandpa Tweedy’s place being one of them.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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