half-timbered
1
8.2
- adjective
- /ˈhæfˌtɪmbərd/
- Specialized
:
entramado de madera
- As we strolled through the village, we admired the charming half-timbered houses with exposed wooden beams and plastered walls.
- a half-timbered house
- a half-timbered building
- a half-timbered mansion
Examples
-
The historic district is filled with picturesque half-timbered buildings, showcasing the architectural style of the Tudor period.
-
The house has since fallen to the wrecking ball, a victim of eccentric local tax policies that also claimed the Thurlow Castle outside of town and a half-timbered mansion on Elm Street that had once belonged to the iron master.
Fiction book (1994) -
The buildings that had been set up here were very fine indeed, being half-timbered and wainscoted.
Fiction book (1991) -
Beyond an inner gate, he entered the mansion, a large, half-timbered building with a brown tile roof.
Fiction book (2002) -
I walked through a crescent of beautiful half-timbered houses to the Dom.
Fiction book (1995) -
Surprising most people, the half-timbered style popular in the early days of Leavenworth theming was left out because it was said to represent a different region of Germany.
Academic text (2000) -
The house was a tan 1930s stucco cottage, half-timbered with a gable front and surrounded by like-minded neighbors.
Fiction book (2002) -
Work waited across two gorges in a cluster of half-timbered chalets at the university's fringe.
Fiction book (1995) -
It is an enormous Tudor mansion, half-timbered with ashlar veneer of brown gray, an ivy-covered arch over the driveway.
Fiction book (1994) -
This was an imposing half-timbered manor of four stories, the lower two equipped with elegant leaded-glass windows; diamond-shaped panes in watery tones of purple and green.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
A building with exposed wooden beams and spaces filled with plaster or brick
A building with visible wooden beams that form its structure
Surface Forms
Morphology
half-timbered = half-timber (transparent) = half + timber + ed
Formed from the noun 'half-timber' plus the adjectival/past-participle suffix '-ed', so the meaning 'having exposed timber framing' follows standard morphology.
Etymology
Half-timbered comes from its parts: half- meaning 'part' and timber meaning 'wood', so it describes a house that shows part of its wooden frame on the outside. That's why a half-timbered building has a visible wood framework with the spaces filled with plaster or stone.