Definition of "manor-house" [manor-house]

• The house or mansion belonging to a manor. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The manor-house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited."
• "In the court of the old mansion, half manor-place, half farm-house, or rather a decayed manor-house, converted into an abode for a Cumberland tenant, stood several saddled horses."
• "The action takes place at Rosmersholm, an old manor-house in the neighbourhood of a small town on a fjord in western Norway."