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half-timbered

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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.

half-timbered, half-timber
adj
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) (of a building, wall, etc.) having an exposed timber framework filled with brick, stone, or plastered laths, as in Tudor architecture
half-timbering  n
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Adj.1.half-timbered - having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture
timbered - furnished with or made of wood or timbers; "timbered walls"
Translations
half-timbered [ˌhɑːfˈtɪmbəd] ADJcon entramado de madera


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The village of Birlstone is a small and very ancient cluster of half-timbered cottages on the northern border of the county of Sussex.
He was about to get down and lead his horse through the damp dirt of the hollow farmyard, shadowed drearily by the large half-timbered buildings, up to the long line of tumble-down dwelling-houses standing on a raised causeway; but the timely appearance of a cowboy saved him that frustration of a plan he had determined on,--namely, not to get down from his horse during this visit.
Sophie looked at the close turf, scarred only with last night's wheels, at two ruts which wound round a rickyard, and at the circle of still orchard about the half-timbered house.
 
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