Definition of "half-timbered" [half•-tim•bered]

• Having a wooden framework, often exposed, with plaster, brick, stone, or other masonry filling the spaces. (adjective)

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• "Today only the church remains.020-7836 5221The classic, half-timbered style that launched a thousand 20th-century "Tudorbethan" eyesores rarely reached Moreton's levels of artistry back in the day, but this fairy-tale edifice testifies to the continuous prosperity and experimentation of the era."
• "The town, so long the site of pilgrimage, now hosts the forces of globalization: a thin-crust Italian pizzeria; a Starbucks in the half-timbered cottage adjoining the great arch."
• "Places that failed to make the 'tentative' list include Blackpool, the former RAF airfield at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, the Rows shops and half-timbered houses in Chester, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway."