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great house

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as in manor house

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Recent Examples of great house Set in the years before the events of Martin’s novels, the production follows the great houses of Westeros as ambition, family bonds and succession collide during the reign of the Mad King. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 May 2026 There stood the great house with all its windows robed in silver. — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026 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 Salesforce is still a great house, but the neighborhood is deteriorating. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for great house

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Noun

The property’s manor house, once a Goddard College library and event space, now serves as a rehearsal space for the Goddard Institute of Dramatic Arts.

— Olivia Fletcher, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
Guests can stay at a suite in the 18-bedroom main manor house, the cozier 11-bedroom Garden House, or one of the property’s individual suites.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of manor house

Noun

This castle is old—so old that an Anglo-Norman lord built it in 1180.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Moments later, MacKinney storms in, kills one of Colum’s guards, and orders his men to round up the castle’s women and sequester them in the chapel.

— Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

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The case against the woman who authorities allege fired multiple bullets at pop singer Rihanna’s Beverly Hills mansion can move forward, a judge ruled Tuesday.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Zara, which has been upping its retail game in recent years, has taken things to a new zenith in Paris, taking over a historic mansion in the Marais district to showcase the first Re{form} Zara collection designed by John Galliano.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of mansion

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Situated at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, Marilyn purchased the 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival-style hacienda for $75,000 in early 1962.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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The drama turns on a young woman, victim of spike drinking at a lavish New Year’s Eve party in a remote manor.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
In an Edwardian manor near Grosvenor Square—where sprawling shopping destinations Regents Street and New Bond Street are there for window gawking—the 31 rooms prove to be a welcome respite from city noise.

— Katharine Sohn, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of manor

Noun

Unlike other pipe organs, these engineering marvels have percussive sound effects for thunderclaps, horse hooves and train whistles, perfect for old movie palaces.

— Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
His uncertain fate plays out in the present-day imagination of an unnamed curator of unspecified gender, who has been employed by the palace to dress some of its rooms for public viewing in the wake of an undescribed personal tragedy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of palace

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The developer plans to convert an office building, Rushmore One, in Ballantyne Corporate Park into five apartment buildings and seven town house buildings.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026
Working with Urban Pioneering Architecture, Haughton corralled an all-Caribbean team of craftsmen and builders to renovate the four-story town house.

— Camille Okhio, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2026

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