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half-timber

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half-tim·bered (hftmbrd, häf-) also half-tim·ber (-br)
adj.
Having a wooden framework, often exposed, with plaster, brick, stone, or other masonry filling the spaces.
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Adj.1.half-timber - having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture
timbered - furnished with or made of wood or timbers; "timbered walls"


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Building exteriors include multidimensional facades, richly textured with steep pitched roofs, tall chimneys, cut stone, and stucco with half-timber details.
In the marketplace Hildesheim's good burghers schemed to rebuild, timber by half-timber, in full Renaissance variegated splendor, the butchers' guild, a charming resurrection, and so clean you'd expect the master butcher to be Mickey, chauffeured by Goofy decked in lederhosen.
 
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