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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

I have heard Mr. Watts speak of the days at Kelmscott Manor House, where he first knew him, and where Rossetti was the most delightful of companions.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

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