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frame house

American

noun

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

frame house British

noun

a house that has a timber framework and cladding

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Etymology

Origin of frame house

First recorded in 1545–55

Example Sentences

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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

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

They drove past the frame house and saw Mrs. Hamilton looking out the window at them, and they drew up in front of the shop where Samuel stood waiting for them.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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