Mansion House

noun the Mansion House

the residence of the Lord Mayor of London

the residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin

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Example sentences from the Web for mansion house

The mansion-house of Graden stood in a bleak stretch of country some three miles from the shore of the German Ocean.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson
The mansion-house was assailed so frequently that a constant guard of soldiers was necessary to defend it from demolition.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
The lord-mayor was an anti-Wilkite—the mob attacked the Mansion-house, and broke the windows.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845|Various
Opposite to the Mansion-house, is the Royal Exchange; a vast detached building of an imposing aspect.
Saunterings in and about London|Max Schlesinger

In a large inn, which was itself the mansion-house of a plantation, we found a particularly good dinner.
Travels Through North America, v. 1-2|Berhard Saxe-Weimar Eisenach

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