[f. FARM sb.2 + HOUSE.] The chief dwelling house attached to a farm.

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  In this word and FARM-YARD the Dicts. mark the principal stress on the first syllable; but in England this pronunciation is unusual, exc. when the word is attrib.

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1598.  Shaks., Merry W., II. iii. 91. I will bring thee where Mistris Anne Page is, at a Farm-house a Feasting.

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1603.  B. Jonson, Sejanus, IV. i.

          Ner.  Tiberius sitting at his meat,
In a farm-house they call Spelunca.

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1711.  Hearne, Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), III. 103. The great Farm-House call’d Chilswell Farm.

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1820.  W. Irving, Sketch Bk. (1859), 46. Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

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1879.  R. Jefferies, Wild Life in a Southern County, 142. Enter the farmhouse garden and pull up bundles of onions, lettuces, or radishes.

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