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telescope houses

telescope houses is the plural of telescope house.

Meaning of telescope house

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...

Questions about telescope houses

What is telescope houses the plural of?
Telescope houses is the plural of telescope house.

Words near telescope houses in the dictionary

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

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