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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She married Bill Darrid, a writer-producer, and we moved into a three-bedroom farmhouse in Westport, Conn. I finally had a father who listened to me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In 1994, he moved his family to live in a renovated Peak District farmhouse which had been donated to NOS, jurors heard.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Inside, the modern farmhouse blends Dewan and Kazee’s contrasting design tastes, pairing sleek contemporary elements with warmer and more personal touches.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Parton owned a 1920s farmhouse in the little Danish enclave about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles from 2004 to 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Mudd remained calm and did not betray the secret known, at this moment, to him alone: America’s most wanted man was hiding in a farmhouse, less than five miles away!
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
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
He and his wife own a home in Kamakura, Japan, where they had two historical farmhouses disassembled and reassembled on their property.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
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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