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black house

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black house
n
a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland


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At the last pair of bars the two girls were sometimes met by a detachment of the Simpson children, who lived in a black house with a red door and a red barn behind, on the Blueberry Plains road.
From the great black house there sounded through the silent night the saddest and most pitiful of sounds,--the shrill, broken whimpering of a frightened woman.
 
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