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Recent Examples of smallholding
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
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Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallholding
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Goodman’s animated narration is paired with evocative music and soundscapes that enliven descriptions of modest homesteads; with these flourishes, information as seemingly banal as the evolution of dishwashing becomes mesmerizing.Marnie Shure, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Undeveloped public lands stretched upward to the mountain peaks on the south, a personal hiking haven rising from the sparse homesteads.Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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Locations include a villa in the South of France, a farmhouse in Tuscany, a flat in the French Alps, and a townhouse in Mallorca.Caroline Tell, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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What begins as a cheery reunion in a New England farmhouse decked out like Santa’s workshop ends as a collective meltdown with carols.Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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In truth, there is apparently no eyewitness account—and possibly as few as three questionable second-hand accounts—from before the Civil War that this Yule Log custom ever took hold on a single Southern plantation much less across the entire South.Robert E. May / Made by History, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
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The Underground Railroad, both a history and an allegory about an enslaved woman who escapes from a Southern plantation, became an unblinkingly strong Prime Video series.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Another speaker brought tomatoes from his garden, harvested in December.Camila Domonoske, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
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The small lobby with its inviting fireplace, or the lush back garden with a bubbling copper fountain and striped umbrellas are the places to enjoy the hotel’s daily breakfast baskets featuring treats from Brentwood bakery Clark Street.Booth Moore, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
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This magnificent 18th-century manor turned 5-star hotel with 150 acres of gardens originally served as the home of the third Duke of Marlborough.Meredith Lepore, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024
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Located just moments from the prestigious links of The Country Club, the picturesque Brookline reservoir, and upscale shopping and dining, the estate offers the seclusion and luxury of a country manor without giving up the joys of zipping away to the city.Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2024
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Ripe orchard and stone fruits of apples, pears, and peaches mingle with honey, vanilla, and caramel notes.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Developed in 1700, the handcraft is now exclusively produced by a single family-run orchard.Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024
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The film, macabre and atmospheric from start to finish, relocates the classic folklore to an isolated hacienda in a Mexican village where a young woman has returned to bury her aunt.DeAnna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
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She was born on May 29, 1917 and grew up in a hacienda in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.Natalia Torija Nieto, ELLE Decor, 28 Sep. 2022
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His upbringing on a peanut farm instilled in him a strong work ethic and a deep sense of values that shaped his presidency and his life beyond.Melissa Noel, Essence, 30 Dec. 2024
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The family was prosperous and had an automobile and a party line telephone, but the rest of his early life on a farm outside of town was primitive by today’s standards.Jonathan Alter, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Smallholding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallholding. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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