ranch house
noun
1
: the main dwelling house on a ranch
2
: a one-story house typically with a low-pitched roof and an open plan
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There was also an old two-story ranch house of stucco with yellow trim.
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David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
It had been assembled by hand, after all, not in a white-walled lab in Los Alamos, but in a small, vacant ranch house just a few miles away.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
He’s eased himself into a director’s chair in the sunny living room of a ranch house on his rural weekend property in California’s Ventura County, a working lemon farm that’s also home to some 20 horses with names like Sir Heinrich VH.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
Taschen left the reimagining of the ranch house entirely in the hands of Pardo, with no preconceived conceptual directive and no prescribed program beyond the utilitarian.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
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David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
It had been assembled by hand, after all, not in a white-walled lab in Los Alamos, but in a small, vacant ranch house just a few miles away.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
He’s eased himself into a director’s chair in the sunny living room of a ranch house on his rural weekend property in California’s Ventura County, a working lemon farm that’s also home to some 20 horses with names like Sir Heinrich VH.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
Taschen left the reimagining of the ranch house entirely in the hands of Pardo, with no preconceived conceptual directive and no prescribed program beyond the utilitarian.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Ranch house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ranch%20house. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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