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frame house

noun

  1. a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.


frame house

noun

  1. a house that has a timber framework and cladding


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Word History and Origins

Origin of frame house1

First recorded in 1545–55

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Example Sentences

As a boy, he lived in a wood-frame house, with a cow in the back, freshly shot bird for dinner, and homemade soap for the bath.

Our two-story wooden-frame house, 30-years-old, is on the west side of Christchurch.

In an obscure alley, in the town of Homestead, there stands a one-story frame house, looking old and forlorn.

Such a frame house usually measured one room deep and two rooms wide or two rooms deep and a passage-way wide.

Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side.

It was a two-story frame house, kept in a fairly tidy condition.

He kept a tavern for many years in a white frame house opposite the court house, and near the “Fulton.”

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