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单词 half-timbered
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Definition of half-timbered in English:

half-timbered

adjective
  • Having walls with a timber frame and a brick or plaster filling.

    (建筑)露明木架的(外墙为木框架,中间填砖或灰泥)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Built as a half-timbered hall by the Brownlow family, the house was extended by its owners in 1591 and 1648.
    • I had tried to think of it as little as possible, but now that I searched for words all that came to me were pictures, images of tree-lined walkways, half-timbered houses, narrow streets and secret stairways.
    • The 300 year-old half-timbered stilted building in the High Street has been a focal point for the town for many years.
    • But Space House is not remotely like any of its brick or half-timbered neighbours.
    • Treven Hall had been an Elizabethan, half-timbered manor house.

Derivatives

  • half-timbering

  • noun
    • Progressive houses combined the now-familiar techniques of specialized domestic planning with motifs from English vernacular buildings such as half-timbering, tile-hanging, inglenooks, and romantically tall chimneys.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Profuse with cobbled streets, the steeply pitched roofs, prominent cross gables with the structures lavishly covered with ornamental half-timbering, this part of town gave her an archaic feeling.
      • The traditional habitat of the Alsatian lowland is constituted of houses constructed with walls in half-timbering and cob and roofing in flat tiles.
      • Derived from photographs, these little passages of stacked windows and balconies and commercial half-timbering are stenciled into broad horizontal bands of paint.
      • Most Tudor homes have stucco or masonry exteriors accented by ornamental half-timbering, massive chimneys and steep gable roofs.

Definition of half-timbered in US English:

half-timbered

adjectiveˈhaf ˈˌtimbərdˈhæf ˈˌtɪmbərd
  • Having walls with a timber frame and a brick or plaster filling.

    (建筑)露明木架的(外墙为木框架,中间填砖或灰泥)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I had tried to think of it as little as possible, but now that I searched for words all that came to me were pictures, images of tree-lined walkways, half-timbered houses, narrow streets and secret stairways.
    • But Space House is not remotely like any of its brick or half-timbered neighbours.
    • Treven Hall had been an Elizabethan, half-timbered manor house.
    • Built as a half-timbered hall by the Brownlow family, the house was extended by its owners in 1591 and 1648.
    • The 300 year-old half-timbered stilted building in the High Street has been a focal point for the town for many years.
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