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telescope house

telescope house noun: a house with multiple extensions connected serially, decreasing in size.

telescope house: a house with multiple extensions connected serially, decreasing in size
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Noun

telescope house (plural telescope houses)

  1. A house with multiple extensions connected serially, decreasing in size.
    • The need for space to house an increasing family, or an increasing prosperity, also resulted in a type of building Marylanders call a ‘telescope house.’1940, Maryland Writers' Project, Maryland, a Guide to the Old Line State (Federal Works Agency, 1940) http://books.google.com/books?id=e487MlEWyOUC&lpg=PA124&vq=telescope&dq=%22telescope%20house%22&pg...
    • As they passed beneath Peace Cliff he observed Mr. Steed looking with some interest at the telescope house, then quickly looking away, but he attached no significance to the incident.1978, James A. Michener, Chesapeake, Chapter "Refuge"

Examples of telescope house in a sentence

  • The “telescope house” was common to eastern Pennsylvania, especially in the utopian communities that gathered there more than a century ago.2002, 100 Of the World's Best Houses (Images Publishing, 2002) p. 326
  • Our solution builds on the classic mid-Atlantic telescope house in plan and section, reaching out and up into the trees.2007, Janelle McCulloch, editor, In Residence: McInturff Architects, Images Publishing, page 110:

Forms of telescope house

pluraltelescope houses

Questions about telescope house

What does telescope house mean?
Telescope house means a house with multiple extensions connected serially, decreasing in size.
How do you use telescope house in a sentence?
The “telescope house” was common to eastern Pennsylvania, especially in the utopian communities that gathered there more than a century ago.
What part of speech is telescope house?
Telescope house is a noun.
What is the plural of telescope house?
The plural of telescope house is telescope houses.

Words near telescope house in the dictionary

  1. telescientific
  2. telescopable
  3. telescope
  4. telescope bag
  5. telescope bags
  6. telescope house
  7. telescope houses
  8. Telescope Peak
  9. telescope word
  10. telescope words
  11. telescoped

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