frame house

noun

1. a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.

frame house

noun

1. a house that has a timber framework and cladding

Word History and Origins

Origin of frame house¹

First recorded in 1545–55

Example Sentences

Bochetto and his business partner at the time renovated the frame house to how it looked when Ali — known then as Cassius Clay — lived there with his parents and younger brother.

From Seattle Times

In the ambulance on the way to the hospital, Dowdy said, the victim pointed out a modest white wood frame house at the top of the hill, where a railroad union worker named Timothy M. Haslett Jr. lived with his young son; a trampoline was in the yard.

From Washington Post

It has been four and a half decades since Mr. Presley’s death, nearly 87 years since he was born in a modest frame house in Tupelo, Miss. Yet somehow he remains as potent a figure as ever.

From New York Times

It has been four and a half decades since Mr. Presley’s death, nearly 87 years since he was born in a modest frame house in Tupelo, Miss. Yet somehow he remains as potent a figure as ever.

From New York Times

Because no natural gas pipeline serves Otego, the Higgins’s 1½ -story conventional frame house was built with a liquid petroleum boiler for heat.

From Washington Post