manor-house
(ˈmænəhaʊs)
[f. manor + house n.1]
The mansion of the lord of a manor.
| 1575 Gascoigne Posies, Herbs 147 Better Fermers fast, than Manour houses fall. 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 208. 1625 Massinger New Way iv. i, How far Sir Giles,..hold you it to be From your Mannor house to this of my Lady Alworths. 1762–71 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 161 Salmon..mentions a Dr. Morecroft,..as architect of the manor-house of Fitzwalters. 1832 Lytton Eugene A. i. vi, Several days elapsed before the family of the manor-house encountered Aram again. |