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Noun
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What were manor houses, exactly?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026 -
Morgan and Glazer spent months traveling together through the United States, France, England, Scotland and Ireland, scouting antique fairs and dealers, flea markets, junk shops and old manor houses selling their patrimony.—
Mark Lamster
Architecture Critic,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The villas are rather close together—for more privacy, do the beachfront villas (201-212).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 May 2026
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The venture has grown to include striking villas inspired by the landscape, suites with biological pools (sans chemicals), and restaurants galore—and even a sister property in Lisbon.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Seaview Terrace is one of the city’s many historic castles, and because everybody in the state knows each other, it’s naturally owned by Liz’s friend’s friend.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
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The Academy Award winner famously bought castles in England and Germany, an island in the Bahamas and a mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana, that is said to be haunted.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
Noun
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The neighborhood/area Despite many of the area’s mansions housing businesses or fairly average restaurant chains, this stretch of Sarrià still belongs to the wealthy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 May 2026
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The series features plenty of glamorous moments from lavish mansions to over-the-top sports cars, but my attention has been solely focused on the 54-year-old’s on-screen fashion.—
Rylee Johnston,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This is a visceral, luxurious immersion in landscape and nature, grand, unspoilt and raw, within which the Prana collection of buildings sensitively sit, taking their cue from the local age-old mountain dwellings.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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The first thing that stands out about the film’s quaint locale is that its scant dwellings are made up only of exterior flats.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.—
Adrian Madlener,
Curbed,
6 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Nilan would graduate from that puddle to Catholic Memorial to Northeastern to the great hockey palaces of his day, the Montreal Forum, Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
2 May 2026
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The canal is lined on either side by palaces, churches, hotels and other public buildings, with 4 bridges across it.—
Lauren Schuster,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Let alone seek revenge by annexing the manors of your enemies.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
4 Feb. 2026
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Virginia‘s countryside is dotted with traditional farmhouses and manors, but one in the foothills of the Southwest Mountains has been given a contemporary twist by a New York architect.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Great houses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20houses. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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