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  • noun Plural form of verandah.

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Examples

  • In his house on Water Street, a big, square brick house, with plain verandahs, the ex-Premier sat alone that night.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • Now restorers have rebuilt its verandahs, put back its light-filled staircase and front door where John McComb best known for New York's City Hall designed them to be, and painted its octagonal drawing and dining rooms their original pale yellow.

    Hamilton's Shining House on a Hill Myron Magnet 2011

  • We are cleaning up the public areas, the verandahs and corridors and staircases.

    India Optimistic About Preparations for Commonwealth Games 2010

  • We are cleaning up the public areas, the verandahs and corridors and staircases.

    India Optimistic About Preparations for Commonwealth Games 2010

  • Oh, and I forgot refrigeration, which we in aust developed as far back as the 1850's to allow for our meat and dairy to be exporte back to Britain; yes, you heard correctly; the 1850's!! icechests were commonplace from the 1890's out here and Federation + pre-Federation designed for the heat; double brick, high ceilings, wrap-around verandahs, coolgardie meatsafe etc.

    Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903 2009

  • The houses themselves were incredible, each practically a castle in its own right, their facades done up in decorative brickwork and tiling, their fronts accented with small porches, porticos, and verandahs, the perimeters of which were set by carved stone pillars.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • It was an old colonial house in South Virginia, and from the back verandahs, long smooth lawns sloped down to the James River, which went on rolling along between gardens of cherry blossom and daffodils.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Inside, the building was square, only one story high, and had arched verandahs running all around.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The houses themselves were incredible, each practically a castle in its own right, their facades done up in decorative brickwork and tiling, their fronts accented with small porches, porticos, and verandahs, the perimeters of which were set by carved stone pillars.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • The houses themselves were incredible, each practically a castle in its own right, their facades done up in decorative brickwork and tiling, their fronts accented with small porches, porticos, and verandahs, the perimeters of which were set by carved stone pillars.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

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