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manse

/mans/US // mæns //UK // (mæns) //

庄园,宅院,宅邸,宿舍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
    • : the dwelling of a landholder; mansion.

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Examples

  • Ranging from a low of $325,000 for a shell to a high of $18 million for a Beaux Arts manse, there are only 167 homes to choose from.

  • Brady purchased part of a rather rundown monastery and transformed it into Casa de la Torre—his own private manse.

  • His move to the Tribune would be followed by a move to a suburban manse—“Heresy!”

  • Both he and the former prime minister have Scottish-manse backgrounds, and share terse, grumpy, and often awkward social manners.

  • Actually, tribal reunions occur at a rambling manse in Kennebunkport, Maine.

  • The book opens in the stagnant, wet spring of 1950 at Hart House, a lonesome English manse a mile away from the nearest road.

  • The following sentences are from “The Old Manse;” there is no mistake here.

  • He tied up the three volumes in a red handkerchief, and called with them at the manse.

  • Really she seemed so put out at being at the manse that she could not raise her eyes.

  • They kept possession, however, of the white manse among the trees.

  • After one evening she declined and went to the manse instead; she enjoyed being with 'Thusia.