half-barn

Updated: May 16, 2025

With this second, or, according to Venus's nomenclature, step-husband, she went to Europe, and there remained, dying only three years ago, an amply endowed widow. We kept up a civil sort of intercourse with her to the last, actually passing a few weeks with her, some fifteen years since, in a house, half-barn, half-castle, that she called a palace, on one of the unrivalled lakes of Italy.

James Fenimore Cooper - Miles Wallingford: Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"