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Meanings of half-timbered in English

Having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture.

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Usage of half-timbered in English
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You live in that big half-timbered house on the hill, don't you?
Odd John
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In his half-timbered cottage on Lampadas, Anari tended the Butlerian leader.
Mentats of Dune
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Some of these have overhanging upper stories to them, are half-timbered or yellow-washed.
The Far Horizon
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Here in Henley Street, in a half-timbered house recently carefully restored, Shakespeare was born.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment
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She was completing the roof of a half-timbered town hall.
Main Street
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Pine slats were tacked to the stucco exterior of the hotel, simulating half-timbered construction.
The Sirens of Titan
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There was no central square, no ancient church and certainly no stilted, half-timbered grammar school.
Career of Evil
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Crooked, half-timbered houses and artisan workshops in 700-year-old buildings make this a very special visit.
Independent.ie
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Five stories, half-timbered frontage, gables and guttering but no gargoyles, and three different satellite dishes.
From hell with love
10
Scattered through the town are many old half-timbered houses.
Denmark
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Christmas lights illuminate the half-timbered houses around the square.
Reuters
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The street itself was narrower and crowded by narrow-fronted half-timbered houses with overhanging upper floors.
Rivers of London
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The village of Swinehurst is a straggling line of half-timbered houses of the early English pattern.
Danger! and Other Stories
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The Laceys lived in what was, at its core, an honest to god sixteenth-century half-timbered building.
Foxglove Summer
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A black-robed woman emerged from the half-timbered stucco and wood administration building and stared at her.
The Winds of Dune
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Their protective coloration was perfect, for they looked half-timbered and broken-backed and thatched and little-windowed, too.
The Sirens of Titan