ˈfarm-ˌhouse
[f. farm n.2 + house.]
a. The chief dwelling house attached to a farm.
‘In this word and farm-yard the Dicts. mark the principal stress on the first syllable; but in England this pronunciation is unusual, exc. when the word is attrib.’ (N.E.D., 1895).
| 1598 Shakes. Merry W. ii. iii. 91, I will bring thee where Mistris Anne Page is, at a Farm-house a Feasting. 1603 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. i, Tiberius sitting at his meat, In a farm-house they call Spelunca. 1711 T. Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 103 The great Farm-House call'd Chilswell Farm. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 46 Every antique farm-house..is a picture. |
b. attrib. and Comb.
| 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxv. 267 Regaling themselves with savoury anticipations of farm-house luxuries. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (ed. 2) xi. 245 Leg of Suffolk farm-house pork. Ibid. 261 Common farm-house sausages are made with nearly equal parts of fat and lean pork. 1851 Mrs. Gaskell Let. May (1966) 836 Mary says she enjoyed the farm house bread. 1879 Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 142 The farm-house garden. 1903 Ld. R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. xv. 138 All the furniture of the simplest and most farmhouse-like kind. 1955 Times 10 May 12/3 Farmhouse cheese probably represents in the popular mind the difference between ‘home made’ and mass-produced cheese. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 57/1 Farmhouse-gate sales are considerable. 1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency vii. 55 We'd all break for a farmhouse tea of hot buttered scones at four o'clock. |
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Add: c. Special Comb. farmhouse loaf, a white loaf of an oval or rectangular shape, with a rounded top.
| [1949 A. R. Daniel Bakers' Dict., Farmhouse bread, originally a good, wholesome home-made loaf, but now imitated commercially by moulding in flour.] 1958 Fance & Wragg Up-to-date Breadmaking xx. 158/2 *Farmhouse loaves... The pan in which it is baked is flat, rectangular and with rounded corners... Originally, this type of bread was reinforced by the addition of wheat germ, fat and milk and with a high water content. Generally the wheat germ is now omitted. 1990 Essentials Sept. 35 (Advt.), Call in zesty, tangy-flavoured Branston Sandwich Pickle to fresh sliced Farmhouse loaf and smoked York ham. |