frame house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of frame house
First recorded in 1545–55
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Bochetto and his business partner at the time renovated the frame house to how it looked when Ali — known then as Cassius Clay — lived there with his parents and younger brother.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Because no natural gas pipeline serves Otego, the Higgins’s 1½ -story conventional frame house was built with a liquid petroleum boiler for heat.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
Upon exiting the train, he discovered a single two-story frame house in a forest of sweet-gum trees.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2018
Worried that their rented frame house would not make it through the storm, Ms. Steele her husband and sons, ages 2 and 4, rode it out at St. John Inn in the Cruz Bay section.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2017
Hardly a shack, the Smith home was a two-story, three-bedroom frame house in a working-class neighborhood.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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