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n. - A rural mansion or estate

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Usage examples (4)
  • It has an air of dignity and spaciousness which many a more portentous modern countryseat fail to match.
  • He had always pined to see what an English countryseat was like; and Lingerfield was apparently important.
  • Chester, and probably both before and after that event lived at "Rockhall," Josiah's countryseat in Long Island.
  • Mr. Barradine's town mansion stood in a commanding corner position, with its front door in the side street; and from the glimpse that Dale obtained of its hall, its staircase,...
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