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telescope house

noun

Definitions

  1. A house with multiple extensions connected serially, decreasing in size.

    • 1978, James A. Michener, Chesapeake, Chapter "Refuge" As they passed beneath Peace Cliff he observed Mr. Steed looking with some interest at the telescope house, then quickly looking away, but he attached no significance to the incident.
    • The “telescope house” was common to eastern Pennsylvania, especially in the utopian communities that gathered there more than a century ago.

The neighborhood

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