Meanings
nounfarm house (plural farm houses)
plural farm houses
- alternativeAlternative form of farmhouse.
The Monkeys had set them down near a farm house, and the four travellers walked up to it and knocked at the door.
1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Country of the Quadlings”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 2481 more example
I call it a very fine country—the hills are steep, the woods seem full of fine timber, and the valley looks comfortable and snug—with rich meadows and several peat farm houses scattered here and there.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 225–226
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