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great house

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great house
The main or central residence of an estate or plantation.
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~ Few privileges were esteemed higher, by the slaves of the out-farms, than that of being selected to do errands at the Great House Farm.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
Nancy had never "worked out" before; but a sick mother suddenly widowed and left with three younger children besides Nancy herself, had forced the girl into doing something toward their support, and she had been so pleased when she found a place in the kitchen of the great house on the hill--Nancy had come from "The Corners," six miles away, and she knew Miss Polly Harrington only as the mistress of the old Harrington homestead, and one of the wealthiest residents of the town.
Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H. View in context
I suppose you will not like to call at the Great House before they have been to see you?
Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context
 
 
 
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