storey house

noun

(in W Africa) a house having more than one storey

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How to use storey house in a sentence

The stone fireplace was deep and ample, built by Father Honoré,—indeed, the entire one storey house was his handiwork.
Flamsted quarries | Mary E. Waller
Whistler's was a three-storey house, with a garden in front, humble compared with the palaces Academicians were building.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Near a white, lately stuccoed two-storey house the coachman pulled up his horse, and began to turn to the right.
The Darling and Other Stories | Anton Chekhov
The Residency is a large two storey house surrounded by a wide verandah and is built of iron plates bolted together.
A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State | Marcus Dorman
The diagram shows a portion of the framework of a two-storey house constructed in the manner described.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 | Various

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