farm-house

farm-house (plural farm-houses)

1. Dated form of farmhouse.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 150:

     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.

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

     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, […]

   • 1826, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, April:

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

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

     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.

   • 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:

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

   • 1869, Henry Abbey, Stories in Verse‎:

     From college to the farm-house where I dwelt I took my books, friends who are never cold, With fragile instruments of chemistry, And cabinets of mineral and rock With limestone encrinites; asterias Old as the mountains, or the sea's white lash Wherewith he smites the shoulders of the shore; Tarentula and scarabee I brought, And, too, I brought my diamond microscope Which magnifies a pin's head to a man's, And gives me sights in water and in air The naturalists have not yet touched upon.

   • 1875, Rev. John Thomson, Life and Times of William Thomson:

     We then did a house at Mowhaugh, and a farm-house at Stodrig, and a part of an onstead. I did the wrightwork of a house at Bemersyde, and an onstead at Butchercote.

   • 1881, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:

     The red-painted farm-houses, peculiar to Norway, lay picturesquely scattered on the higher points of the undulating valley, where men and women were busy hay-making.

   • 1971, The Wine Mine: A Mine of Wine Information, page 144:

     Suitably dressed, and armed with home-made triangular step-ladders, baskets with hooks on them so that we can hang them from the pergole (wine trellises) while we cut the grapes with scissors, secateurs or knives, all of which become equally painful to use after a day or two, we turn up at the right farm-house about seven-thirty.

   • 2010, John Dundas Cochrane, “The Walk to Moscow”, in John Keay, editor, The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

     I had intended, from Novgorod, a visit to Mr. Glenny, at his establishment, eight miles distant, on the banks of the Veshora. Not finding him, however, I put up at a farm-house for the night, having previously drunk kuass at a convent, paid a rouble for charity, and received a blessing upon entering Muscovy – not without a hope that I should find better treatment here than in Esthonia.