frame house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of frame house
First recorded in 1545–55
Example Sentences
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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
Even in Minnesota, in our wood frame house built in 1905, the foundation sits up several feet off the ground, and we don't even live near a river.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2018
As the storm crashed ashore, they abandoned their mobile home for a two-story frame house.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2018
He distrusted the thick mud walls and built a frame house some distance away, and his cows put their heads out the deep recessed windows of the old Sanchez house.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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