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n. (context architecture English) A method of construction using heavy timber beams, usually joined by tenon and mortice joints pegged together. The spaces between the posts and beams is infilled with material such as wattle and daub, bricks or stones. Half timbering is one type of timber framing.
Usage examples of "half-timbering".
The travelers in the early morning parades had moved through the garden to an old cottage shaded by mulberry trees, its white stucco and half-timbering shrouded in climbing vines.
Exile architecture in the human quarter was a melange of mortared stonework, half-timbering, and quasi-biblical mudplaster, with thick walls for coolness, tiled roofs, vine-hung loggias deep in shadow, and small patios planted with palms, laurels, and aromatic cinnamon trees.
The third-storey gables with their rotting half-timbering sit like an afterthought above the broad bays.
The fake-chalet half-timbering, once cream-coloured, had been painted apple green, and the heavy front door as well.