country house

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Recent Examples of country house Those in the Garden Wing are spacious and pale-pastel-pretty, with the air of a French country house, while those in the original building range from cosy under the eaves to lofty ceilinged with four-posters. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 Turner first discovered Cooper’s novels many years ago in an old girlfriend’s country house. Anna Russell, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 Ideal for families or friend groups, this country house is your invite to live life the Mediterranean way—slow and laid back, with long lunches over a bottle of wine. Katie Silcox, Vogue, 28 May 2026 Related Stories In the former, Seydoux plays Lucy, an avant-garde musician who’s just moved into a country house near Munich with her husband Philip (Laurence Rupp) and son. Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for country house
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Noun
  • The property is one of the Caribbean's few remaining plantation great houses and one of the only Barbadian producers still bottling its own single casks—visitors can even ride a heritage railway through the grounds.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • There's great house drama (including a full house screaming match after Jessie's eviction and Jerry dubbing Dan as Judas).
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Sidewalks would connect every town house and commercial building, and two pedestrian gateway entrances would be built.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
  • This Brooklyn town house layers English textiles and plays with color drenching to maximize its tighter spaces but maintains its tidiness by paring back on decor.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2026
Noun
  • Unlike farmland converted to housing, solar installations could more easily revert back to farming at the end of a project’s 30-year lifespan.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • Flash flooding in New York City forced the New Museum to close over the weekend after water leaked into a gallery housing WangShui’s installation Oppose the Serpent (2024).
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026

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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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