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manor house

NOUN
palatial residence
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Yeates, a 25-year-old landscape architect, had recently moved into an apartment in a converted manor house when she essentially vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

In the lush countryside linking off radar Corrèze to the Lot region in Southwest France, almost hugging the banks of the Dordogne river, a striking 19th-century manor house recently underwent a dramatic reconstruction.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

He gave a pair of recitals on the day, one at the manor house in Zelazowa Wola where Chopin was born in 1810, now a museum, and the other at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024

“The hotel takes the place of the Victorian manor house of an Agatha Christie novel.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023

The wagon pulled into a narrow lane then, and Polly could see the two-story brick manor house ahead.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper