Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a wooden framework, often exposed, with plaster, brick, stone, or other masonry filling the spaces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the foundations and principal supports of stout timber, but with all the interstices of the front of the building filled in with plaster: applied to houses built in a decorative style extensively used in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective architecture Describes a
building constructed usingtimber framing methods.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture
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Examples
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The region's medieval towns and villages such as Colmar, Obernai, Ribeauvillé and Turckheim are absurdly picturesque with cobbled streets and half-timbered houses.
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This palace looks lovely from this cosy half-timbered inn where I am lodged but have yet to leave.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Within a 17th-century half-timbered house, at Le Bistro de Claude, some of the most powerful people in the cognac business are partaking of seriously good cuisine.
A Slow Path to Perfection Lennox Morrison 2011
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• Le Trianon, avenue des Bains, Parc des Thermes, Allevard, +33 4 7671 9617, letrianon-allevard.frAlsace surprises the visitor, not just with the strange Germanic dialect and its colourful half-timbered gingerbread houses clustered in tiny villages surrounded by rolling vine-clad hills, but also with some of the country's finest cuisine.
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This palace looks lovely from this cosy half-timbered inn where I am lodged but have yet to leave.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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To return to the farm: the storehouse was a long red half-timbered building, where the hides were hung on rails to dry, their corners pegged out with wooden sticks.
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The town, so long the site of pilgrimage, now hosts the forces of globalization: a thin-crust Italian pizzeria; a Starbucks in the half-timbered cottage adjoining the great arch.
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Today only the church remains.020-7836 5221The classic, half-timbered style that launched a thousand 20th-century "Tudorbethan" eyesores rarely reached Moreton's levels of artistry back in the day, but this fairy-tale edifice testifies to the continuous prosperity and experimentation of the era.
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Places that failed to make the 'tentative' list include Blackpool, the former RAF airfield at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, the Rows shops and half-timbered houses in Chester, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway.
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• London House, Rhosmaen Street 01558 822800, heavenlychoc.co.uk Simon Wright, partner of Y Polyn restaurant, CarmarthenshireThe much-loved half-timbered ice-cream shop on Henley-in-Arden's architecturally rich high street refrains from parading its heritage credentials.
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