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View synonyms for stately home

stately home

noun

, British.
  1. a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.


stately home

noun

  1. a large mansion, esp one open to the public


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Unlike many aristocratic stately homes, however, it is not draughty, cold and ramshackle.

Whether you’re shopping for a cheap office cabinet or stately home office furniture, there are best office cabinets for every perfectly organized and outfitted setting.

And yet the days at Hainault were very happy, and the bright visits to Gaydene, and her own pleasant though stately home.

It is not always that the stately home is the scene of domestic felicity.

A mile or so brought us to Down Ampney, once the stately home of the famous Hungerford family, and there the lane ended.

Its embattled towers, beautiful windows and ivy-clad walls make up an ideal picture of a "stately home of England."

To Earl De Courcy it came in his stately home, to fill his heart with deepest sorrow and remorse.

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