manor house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of manor house
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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Yeates, a 25-year-old landscape architect, had recently moved into an apartment in a converted manor house when she essentially vanished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025
Buckinghamshire County Council's social services took him more than 125 miles to Berrow Wood, a Tudor manor house in the village of Pendock.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025
In the lush countryside linking off radar Corrèze to the Lot region in Southwest France, almost hugging the banks of the Dordogne river, a striking 19th-century manor house recently underwent a dramatic reconstruction.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
He gave a pair of recitals on the day, one at the manor house in Zelazowa Wola where Chopin was born in 1810, now a museum, and the other at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024
Inside the two-story manor house there were twelve rooms, some of which had been converted to better serve the school.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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