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frame house

noun

  1. a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.


frame house

noun

  1. a house that has a timber framework and cladding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of frame house1

First recorded in 1545–55
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Example Sentences

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.

In the ambulance on the way to the hospital, Dowdy said, the victim pointed out a modest white wood frame house at the top of the hill, where a railroad union worker named Timothy M. Haslett Jr. lived with his young son; a trampoline was in the yard.

It has been four and a half decades since Mr. Presley’s death, nearly 87 years since he was born in a modest frame house in Tupelo, Miss. Yet somehow he remains as potent a figure as ever.

Because no natural gas pipeline serves Otego, the Higgins’s 1½ -story conventional frame house was built with a liquid petroleum boiler for heat.

The two-story frame house was built in parts, with the original section erected circa 1872 and additions made in 1894 and 1897.

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