country house
Noun
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Noun
country house (plural country houses)
- (British) A weekend and holiday residence, located outside of urban areas, used as a retreat from city life.
- 1909, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Act 3]:
- One of those utterly tedious amusements one only finds at an English country house on an English country Sunday. I don't think any one at all morally responsible for what he or she does at an English country house.
- 1909, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Act 3]:
- (US) A second home.
- French: maison de campagne
- German: Landhaus
- Portuguese: casa de campo, vila
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