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town house

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town·house or town house  (tounhous)
n.
1. A residence in a city.
2. A row house, especially a fashionable one.
town house
n
1. a terraced house in an urban area, esp a fashionable one, often having the main living room on the first floor with an integral garage on the ground floor
2. (Social Science / Human Geography) a person's town residence as distinct from his country residence
3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) another name (now chiefly Scot) for town hall
4. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a US and Canadian name for terraced house
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Noun1.town housetown house - a house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls
row house
brownstone - a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color
house - a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house"
terraced house - a house that is part of a terrace


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The Greystoke town house quite took Meriem's breath away; but when strangers were about none might guess that she had not been to the manner born.
The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
As Tarzan leaped from the roadster that had met him at the station and ran up the steps to his London town house he was met at the door by a dry-eyed but almost frantic woman.
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When there shall be a sentinel at every corner, and a court of guard before the town house, a loyal gentleman may venture to walk abroad.
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