[f. FRAME sb. and v. + HOUSE.]
† 1. A house in which things are framed or fashioned. Obs.
a. 1555. Bradford, in Certain Lett. (1564), 276. The crosse, that is the framehouse in the which god frameth his children like to his Sonne Christe.
2. A house constructed with a wooden framework or skeleton covered with boards.
1817. J. Bradbury, Trav. Amer., 331. Every planter in the vicinity, by the aid of the saw mill, is able to erect a handsome frame-house.
1856. Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 394. In a little white frame-house we found a company of engineers.
1887. Spectator, 26 March, 412/2. A master-carpenter, who lived in a comfortable two-story frame-house.
