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Recent Examples of country house
There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.
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Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.
—Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
The lawsuit was later dismissed; by then, Lowell was in Anápolis, Brazil, living with a New York ship captain named Leek Bowen in an eleven-room country house.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
The show is set in 1925 and, in true Christie fashion, sees a country house party prank turn deadly.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
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Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
There’s an absent father and a clueless, neglectful mother but the five Gilbert children — Lydia, Hugo, Annabel, Jeremy and Rosalind — are essentially raising themselves in an English country house of secret passages and worrying infestations.
—Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
The lawsuit was later dismissed; by then, Lowell was in Anápolis, Brazil, living with a New York ship captain named Leek Bowen in an eleven-room country house.
—Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
The show is set in 1925 and, in true Christie fashion, sees a country house party prank turn deadly.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for country house
Noun
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Arnault did not merely preserve a single great house after a founder’s passing — a feat rare enough in creative industries.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
23 Dec. 2025
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Vaccarello, shy and soft-spoken, has managed to reign at one of the great houses without becoming a household name or a glittering public personage in the manner of John Galliano or Marc Jacobs.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Lincoln Park town house vanished almost as quickly as Sasha Adler fell for it.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2026
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Did that really happen on Epstein’s island, or at his town house or mansion?—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The new Interfaith features 205 beds and can accommodate 236 for emergency housing.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Feb. 2026
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Lawmakers are settling in for a week of housing debates and efforts to limit the sharing of Big Data.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Country house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/country%20house. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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