farm-house

plural farm-houses

1. datedDated form of farmhouse.

   Ye may hear him, on a lown day, at every farm-house in the parish.

   1826 April, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

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   […] and ſo as they were extremely diſtreſſed in their circumſtances, my Lord lent them one of his farm-houſes juſt to ſave their paying rent: […]

   1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 5

   It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows—it is not cramped into the vulgar compactness of a square farm-house—it is a solid walled, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might suppose a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to three thousand a year in.

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 150

   Thence I proceeded in a coachee to Trenton, distant thirty miles from Philadelphia. On the road we passed an ordinary looking farm-house, which was pointed out to me as the birth-place of Major General Jacob Brown, […]

   1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, page 171

   AMPERSAND, s. the character &, representing the conjunction and. V. n. g.—A per se A. This is and per se and; by a little smoothing and elision in pronunciation, becoming Ampersand. “The expression,” says the learned author referred to, “is not yet forgotten in the nursery.” No; nor far beyond the nursery. It is remembered and used in the village-school, in the cottage, the shop, and the farm-house.

   1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, page 6

   The harvestmen who board in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest.

   1837 February, Anna Lee, “The Pinch of Salt”, in The Ladies’ Companion: A Monthly Magazine, Embracing Literature and the Arts, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Published by William W. Snowdon, →OCLC, page 162, column 2