(especially, British) A house serving as a weekend and holiday residence, used as a retreat from city life; traditionally and archetypically in the country, and especially of wealthy owners.
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(especially, British) A house serving as a weekend and holiday residence, used as a retreat from city life; traditionally and archetypically in the country, and especially of wealthy owners.
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(UK, dated, colloquial) A country house.
A dated British colloquial expression for a modest country house — not a grand estate but a comfortable rural retreat, the kind of unpretentious weekend getaway that a well-off Victorian or Edwardian professional might maintain. The word 'box' conveys smallness and practicality rather than grandeur; a country-box was where you went to shoot game or escape London smog, not to impress anyone. The phrase has a pleasantly self-deprecating quality that suits the British sensibility.
(British, in particular) A country house open to the visiting public.
(British) , especially one owned by the aristocracy.
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(especially, British) Such a house, even as a primary residence and even in an area that is no longer rural, but with an aesthetic in keeping with that traditional distinction of country ways.
“Yeah, I know someone who rails bitterly and often against those people who build houses out in the country and spoil her view from the window of the country house she lives in.”
“In Five Weeks in the Country, author Francine Prose imagines a distressing, ill-timed visit to Charles Dickens' home in 1857 — offering a memorable twist on the classic English country house drama. n.pr/4tmweX0”
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