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Half-timber   /hæf-tˈɪmbər/   Listen
Half-timber

adjective
1.
Having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture.  Synonym: half-timbered.






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... church-union. He hopes to see all the evangelical denominations joined in one strong body, opposing Catholicism and Christian Science, and properly guiding all movements that make for morality and prohibition. Here, the combined churches could afford a splendid club-house, maybe a stucco and half-timber building with gargoyles and all sorts of pleasing decorations on it, which, it seems to me, would be lots better to impress the ordinary class of people than just a plain old-fashioned colonial house, such as you describe. And that would be the ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Half-timber" :   timbered



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