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ramshackle

[ram-shak-uhl] / ˈræmˌʃæk əl /


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Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

“The Kindness of Strangers” is set in London in 1953, where the downbeat postwar economy has brought together a group of lodgers in the ramshackle house owned by Honor Wilson.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The film is not about a tugboat operator, nor does it follow the life and times of the ramshackle group working at a service garage.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

As immortalised in the song, Pierson's ramshackle hideout hosted some wild parties, before it perished in flames in 2004.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

She shook her head and stared at Dill’s ramshackle house, looking for movement inside.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner




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