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farmhouses

  • plural
    of farmhouse.
    farmhouse
    noun
    a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.

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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

Blackout curtains were hung in windows across America, from solitary farmhouses to the White House.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand