frame house

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

Origin of frame house

First recorded in 1545–55

It is at the frame-house stage, and will soon blossom into the red-brick stage.

In the Midst of Alarms |Robert Barr
There was a frame-house in the distance, and in front of it a barnyard, and sheds with thatched roofs.

Jimmie Higgins |Upton Sinclair
Somehow or other, year after year has flown by, and still we have not got that frame-house we promised ourselves.

Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) |William Delisle Hay
Nettie started: she thought he would fancy it had it been done, if done at all, when he gave her the push at the frame-house.

Little Nettie |Susan Bogert Warner

Nettie started; she thought he would fancy it had been done, if done at all, when he gave her the push at the frame-house.

The Carpenter's Daughter |Anna Bartlett Warner

frame house

a house that has a timber framework and cladding