bank barn
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bank barn
n. A barn built into a hillside, having entrances on two different levels.
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The nearby Tyne Cot cemetery was named by Northumbrian Fusiliers for a disused
German barn originally on the site which reminded them of a Tyneside Cottage.
Elmgreen & Dragset constructed a sizable and passably realistic Deutsche Scheune (
German Barn), 2011, within an empty airplane hangar, using the sheer absurdity of the global circulation of such traditional icons to comment on the impossibility of cultural sensitivity.
They also have built a large meeting and banquet hall in the style of an old
German barn (the heritage of that area of the Hill Country) that they have begun renting for weddings and other gatherings.
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