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Stately home   /stˈeɪtli hoʊm/   Listen
Stately home

noun
1.
A mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family.





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... the abbey some years before, during a visit to the neighborhood, had prevailed upon her square-shouldered lord to turn his twinkling gray eye in that direction, and the captain of industry, with the remark that here, at last, was a real bully old sure-fire English stately home, had sent down builders and their like, not in single spies, but in battalions, with instructions ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse
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Words linked to "Stately home" :   mansion house, UK, residence, Britain, U.K., United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, mansion, hall, manse


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