half-timbered
half-timbered
Definition
half·-timbered (-tim′bərd)
adjective
Archit. made of a wooden framework having the spaces filled with plaster, brick, etc.
half-timbered
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- gable: The south transept has a half-timbered gable with restored Jacobean carving.
- inn: The Bell Hotel is everything you'd expect from a beautiful half-timbered coaching inn.
- house: The half-timbered house on the right stands where the Odeon Cinema would be built in 1936.
- cottage: They lived together in a small half-timbered cottage in Lower Quinton that Walton rented for 3 shillings a week.
- building: The half-timbered building by the cars is the Prince of Wales public house.
- hotel: This magnificent, half-timbered hotel is just a few minutes ' easy walk from the Royal Shakespeare Theater and Stratford's attractive town center.
Browse dictionary entries near half-timbered
- half tide
- half step
- half-staff
- half sovereign
- half sole
- half slip
- half size
- half sister
- half shell
- half rhyme
- half title
- half-truth
- half volley
- half-wit
- half-witted
- half-yearly
- halfback
- halfbeak
- halfhearted
- halfpenny
