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half-timbered
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
half-timbered
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
house
▪ Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.
▪ The castle may cast its shadow, but the character of Arbon formed equally by the half-timbered houses.
▪ A half-timbered house here has become a library.
▪ Schaffhausen is dominated by the sixteenth-century Munol fortress, perched on top of a hillock and towering over half-timbered houses sleeping by the water.
▪ There are winding streets, museums, half-timbered houses and lush gardens of figs, mulberries, sweet chestnuts and vines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York, a half-timbered, creeper-clad station was connected to a matching hotel by a rustic bridge.
▪ Blakesley Hall - Prime example of an Elizabethan half-timbered farmhouse.
▪ It now stands unique - the only substantial half-timbered building in any Cambridge College.
▪ Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.
▪ The castle may cast its shadow, but the character of Arbon formed equally by the half-timbered houses.
▪ The main half-timbered building now forms part of a farm, and is in a poor state of repair.
▪ The most famous is probably the delightful half-timbered Dunrobin, on the Highland line to Wick.
▪ This is in Pauntley and is an impressive, large, half-timbered building which underwent restoration in the early 1930s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-timbered

Half-timbered \Half"-tim`bered\ (h[aum]f"t[i^]m`b[~e]rd), a. (Arch.) Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.

Wiktionary
half-timbered

a. (context architecture English) Describes a building constructed using timber framing methods.

WordNet
half-timbered

adj. having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture [syn: half-timber]

Usage examples of "half-timbered".

Byzantine, houris-and-candied-figs visions of men in cutaway coats and pasha pants walking around inside the beetle-browed, half-timbered hotel on Stupartska with their upper torsos separated from their lower, summoning leopards and lyrebirds out of the air.

The birthplace was a pleasant, homey, half-timbered building of Warwickshire stone whose door was nearly flush with Henley Street.

Like all old half-timbered fabricks it was slowly warping and bending out of true, but Daniel loved it because it was now Gresham’s College, home of the Royal Society.

Jack continued past the half-timbered little building and saw ahead of him, its front door set only inches back from the verge of the road, another gnomishly small dwelling.

Well, anyhow, I could lodge in a lovely half-timbered inn, and go to the Globe Theatre, and generally have a ball.

He remembered a pub being looted two squares back, and as they went toward it past the watermarked, half-timbered houses and a hotel named the Royal Hop Pole, he discovered another of her griefs: she had lost a heel and in any case her tight, pointed slippers weren't the best for walking.

The towns the circus stopped in, whether just to spend a night or to set up and show, were medievally picturesque—gabled houses with half-timbered or weathered stone fronts and steep roofs dotted all over with dormer windows.

She couldn't wait to be alone in her room, her parents' half-timbered English Tudor house on Mill Race Lane, to try to sketch, with shaky fingers, the phantom John Reddy Heart, not yet knowing such an effort was doomed to failure, thinking I am alone with tohn Reddy Heart, a fact that means nothing to him though my life will never be the same again.

As they approached the town of Silverhill, the scenery became even more picturesque, with fat sheep grazing in the meadows and half-timbered cottages dotting the green countryside.