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half-timbered

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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half-tim·bered /ˌhɑːf ˈtɪmbəd◂ $ ˌhæf ˈtɪmbərd◂/ adjective  TBCa half-timbered house is usually old and shows the wooden structure of the building on the outside walls 〔古代房屋建筑〕露明木架的
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half-timberedIt now stands unique - the only substantial half-timbered building in any Cambridge College.The main half-timbered building now forms part of a farm, and is in a poor state of repair.This is in Pauntley and is an impressive, large, half-timbered building which underwent restoration in the early 1930s.At Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York, a half-timbered, creeper-clad station was connected to a matching hotel by a rustic bridge.The most famous is probably the delightful half-timbered Dunrobin, on the Highland line to Wick.Blakesley Hall - Prime example of an Elizabethan half-timbered farmhouse.Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.The castle may cast its shadow, but the character of Arbon formed equally by the half-timbered houses.
half-tim·bered adjectiveChineseSyllable
wooden and old Corpus usually the half-timbered a house is shows


half-timbered
half-timbered /ˌhɑːf ˈtɪmbəd◂ $ ˌhæf ˈtɪmbərd◂/ adjective
a half-timbered house is usually old and shows the wooden structure of the building on the outside walls


half-timberedBrE /ˌhɑːf ˈtɪmbəd/ 🔊NAmE /ˌhæf ˈtɪmbərd/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (of a building 建筑物) having walls that are made from a wooden frame filled with brick, stone, etc. so that the framework can still be seen 露明木架的