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Kelmscott Manor

British  
/ ˈkɛlmzˌkɒt /

noun

  1. a Tudor house near Lechlade in Oxfordshire: home (1871–96) of William Morris

"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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We can go to Morris’s Kelmscott Manor in the Cotswolds today, and be turned to his vision by his wallpapers in ways we can’t when we read his books.

From The New Yorker Jul. 23, 2018

His famously hand-wrought houses, Kelmscott Manor and the Red House, depended on the broader fabric of Victorian prosperity to support their own secession from it.

From The New Yorker Jul. 23, 2018

In the weeks before his departure he had taken a house, Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, in a joint tenancy with Rossetti.

From The Guardian Mar. 27, 2010

In later life she took to impersonating the catatonic lady of Shalott and became both custodian of and exhibit at the Morris shrine at Kelmscott Manor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kelmscott Manor House was advertised for sale in 1871, a fact which Morris discovered quite by accident.

From The Automobilist Abroad by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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