Crossword clues for townhouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Townhouse \Town"house`\, n.
A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
a house in the city, usu. said of a second residence belonging to one who has a permanent residence elsewhere, as in the countryside.
Row House.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a row house 2 a house in an urban setting 3 (context dated English) town hall
Wikipedia
A townhouse, or town house as used in North America, Asia, Australia, South Africa and parts of Europe, is a type of terraced housing. A modern town house is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. The term originally referred in British usage to the city residence (normally in London) of someone whose main or largest residence was a country house.
Townhouse in British usage originally refers to the town or city residence, in practice normally in London, of a member of the nobility or gentry, as opposed to their country seat, generally known as a country house or, colloquially, for the larger ones, stately home. The grandest of the London townhouses were stand-alone buildings, but many were terraced buildings.
In modern usage for marketing purposes, British property developers and estate agents often call new city terraced houses, townhouses, following the North American usage of the term, to aggrandise modest dwellings and to avoid the negative connotation of cheap terraced housing built in the Victorian era to accommodate workers. The aristocratic pedigree of terraced housing, for example as survives in St James's Square in Westminster, is widely forgotten. The term is comparable to the Hôtel particulier which housed the French nobleman in Paris.
Usage examples of "townhouse".
Victor Kolinski, flexed again, admiring himself in his latest Danskin aerobics spandex bodysuit, in the mirrors of his personal Aurora Heights townhouse gym.
The places were larger than they looked at first glance, but still might have been dismissed as middle-class housing but for the gilding around the windows, doors, and immaculate edgework, and the fact that few middle-class townhouses sported upper-story gargoyles and such intricate wrought-iron works placed almost purely for decoration.
Note, as we stroll past the backs of Christ Church, the studied calm of Corpus Christi, the soft golden glow of Merton, that we are immersed in an architectural treasure house, one of the densest assemblages of historic buildings in the world, and that Merton Street presents us with an unquestionably becoming prospect of gabled buildings, elaborate wrought-iron gates and fine seventeenth and eighteenth-century townhouses.
THE WANDERERS 1 An hour later, Drew entered the townhouse in Beacon Hill.
I can point to the nearness of his townhouse to the Barbary Coast as circumstantial evidence—.
She'd been inside the beautiful townhouse once before, when she'd visited Lady Diana by request, and for that reason the sight of such luxury didn't quite take her breath away.
Between Chatsworth Major and the townhouse there must have been a staff of a hundred or more, but they had less conscious impact on Adele than her bedroom furniture did.
Hijaz Nordeen, the Cinnabar consular agent, lived in a Haven City townhouse, and it was there that Adele and Tovera had traveled on one of the electric minicabs which wound their way through the streets however the whims of their drivers chose.
Caroline could take her to his mother's townhouse, the official business address for the escort agency.
The chalet is yours, fee simple outright in perpetuity, and there is a townhouse in New Mont'plier if you yearn for a more urban existence at times.
It was a neighborhood of garden apartments and townhouses and condominiums, nearly all of which lacked adequate parking.
Trumbull) with her husband, Prince Elector Otto of Tuscan-Bavaria, here for the opening of the Hal Foster Retrospective at MOMA, staying at the townhouse of jet-setter Arnold Chauncey, just back from his whirlwind tour of Brasilia.
He did indeed realize that the friend who'd played hide-and-seek with him in the gardens of the Leary townhouse when he visited his father had become a poncing little courtier to whom position was everything.
She, Corder Leary's pride and presumptive heir, spent most of her time in the family townhouse in Xenos under the care of nurses and other hirelings.
She, Corder Learys pride and presumptive heir, spent most of her time in the family townhouse in Xenos under the care of nurses and other hirelings.