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manor

[man-er] / ˈmæn ər /
NOUN
large house
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The silver, pewter and brass items were taken from the 16th Century manor house at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, on 30 July.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

His father Gyozo Orban, who is 85, owns several building material companies as well as the historic Hatvanpuszta estate he had rebuilt into a luxurious manor worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

A classic manor house mystery, which revived the genre when it became a hit in 2019, “Knives Out” is the ideal blend of mystery and wit, with a cast of characters to keep you company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

A 60-room, brick-and-stone manor built in a quadrangle around a timber-framed hall, Hopwood Hall had seen better centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Alyce, in her comings and goings through the village, had come upon the path, although she had never before had need to follow it all the way up to the manor.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Think of the manors in “Clue,” or “Murder By Death.”

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025

But Moorish-style manors, with horseshoe arches and keyhole windows, often sit beside boxy, white, Bauhaus-inspired villas on the coastal escarpment, so the discomfort is probably worth it.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021

Alongside alluring beaches, the remnants of those manors stand today, many of them in various stages of crumbling.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2018

The protagonist of James’s era — the scholar in his dim library — was supplanted in our imaginations by curious young women roaming gloomy manors and innocently unleashing hell.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018

He wrote more about Ayortha than I ever wished to know: how the guilds were structured; the number of gallons of milk produced in a year by one Ayorthaian cow; the construction of their manors.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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