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laithe houses

laithe houses is the plural of laithe house.

Meaning of laithe house

Noun

laithe house (plural laithe houses)

  1. A dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.
    • The vernacular tradition in building was not completely dead, however, and in the West Riding of Yorkshire economic and social factors peculiar to the hills and dales of the eastern Pennines produced a new house-type, the laithe house.1990, Michael A. Reed, The Landscape of Britain: From the Beginnings to 1914, →ISBN, page 313

Questions about laithe houses

What is laithe houses the plural of?
Laithe houses is the plural of laithe house.

Words near laithe houses in the dictionary

  1. laited
  2. laith
  3. Laithangbam
  4. laithe
  5. laithe house
  6. laithe houses
  7. laithe-house
  8. laithe-houses
  9. laithes
  10. laiths
  11. Laithwaite

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