half-timberingn.
/ˈhɑːfˌtɪmb(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhæfˌtɪmb(ə)rɪŋ/ Architecture.
Heavy timbers forming the frame (typically left exposed, esp. for decorative effect) of a house, wall, or storey, the gaps in between the timbers being filled with any of various materials such as bricks, wattle and daub, etc.; (also) boarding added to a house to give a similar decorative effect. Cf. half-timber adj. 1.A well-known type of this construction associated with the Tudor period of architecture features dark timbers filled with white plastered panels.
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1856 Ecclesiologist May 156 Bold bows and oriels, half timbering, with tiles in the interstices, and black and red brick combine to produce a striking ensemble.
1893 Brickbuilder Aug. 71/2 The lower story of brick... The upper story of half-timbering.
1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 97 Simulated half-timbering is where boards are applied on plaster walls.
1992 Times 29 Aug. (Weekend section) 11/1 The house is a textbook example of medieval domestic architecture, with half-timbering, pargetting, rosy brick, mullioned windows, towering tudor chimneys and a moat.
2000 B. Maitland Silvermeadow i. 10 The Bishop's Mitre sat brooding.., a dour 1950s pub that no amount of half-timbering and geranium window boxes could cheer up.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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