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stately home

NOUN
  1. a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family

How To Use stately home In A Sentence

  • The house and its gardens are set in extensive park land and a first impression is that of a comfortable stately home.
  • All over, you'll find the dramatically dilapidated shells of haciendas - the former homes of the conquistadors, where plantation, processing plant and stately home were one and the same.
  • That included the SS, who held trainloads of loot stolen from churches, banks, stately homes, museums and castles from around Europe.
  • Other buildings such as cathedrals and parish churches are associated with a sense of traditional Englishness, as is often the palatial 'stately home'.
  • We went to a stately home in Cheshire so they could have a holiday and, on the last night, we played sardines.
  • The island's only stately home is a testament to the grandeur of days gone by.
  • Up till now, the practice was encouraged at stately homes around the country where "pee bales" have been deposited in secluded areas of National Trust gardens to allow male members of staff to relieve themselves. An Ominous Story
  • An undisclosed sum that could amount to millions of pounds has been found missing in the accounts of the stately home.
  • For more than a month, employees at the stately home had denied all knowledge of an impending wedding, rubbishing local rumours that the island would host the occasion.
  • It would be a good idea if, like Mike Priestley suggested, the building was opened up like a stately home with tour guides showing off the Victorian splendours.
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