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  • 121tenement house — noun a run down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑tenement • Hypernyms: ↑apartment building, ↑apartment house * * * noun : a dwelling house divided into separate apartments for rent to families …

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  • 122mansion house — man·sion house n: a dwelling house of any size and any buildings (as barns or stables) within the curtilage Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 123peel-house — peelˈ house or peelˈ tower noun 1. (also peleˈ house or peleˈ tower; also with cap) orig a fortified dwelling house, usu entered by a ladder to the first floor, with a vaulted ground floor for cattle, common on the English/Scottish Borders… …

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  • 124single-story dwelling — A dwelling house having only one floor level. Anno: 92 ALR2d 886, § 5(a) …

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  • 125ranch house — noun Date: 1862 1. the main dwelling house on a ranch 2. a one story house typically with a low pitched roof and an open plan …

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  • 126garden house — noun 1. : a small usually open structure providing shelter in a garden 2. chiefly South & Midland : privy * * * garden house, 1. any small building in a garden. 2. a dwelling house situated in a garden or gardenlike surroundings. 3. Dialect. a… …

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  • 127private house — noun The dwelling house of a private individual, as contrasted with a shop, office or public building • • • Main Entry: ↑private …

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  • 128Hatton House —    In parish of St. Andrew Holborn, being the dwelling house of Sir Edward Coke, 2 Jas. I. (Middlesex Sessions Rolls, II. 6).    Mentioned also in 1650 (L. and P. Commonw. II. 472).    See Hatton Garden …

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