as in rectory
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Recent Examples of vicarage
This former vicarage, built in 1876, is considered one of Sweden’s most haunted houses.
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Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
But other things were transplanted from elsewhere in England: a church in Northamptonshire and a vicarage in London become a church and a vicarage in Yorkshire.
—Literary Hub, 21 May 2025
Neighbors fear ‘screaming, shouting, and splashing’ The Sun first reported that Horner and Halliwell had sent off planning permission last year to build a 40ft x 16ft swimming pool at their vicarage house residence, which Horner bought for £2 million ($2.5 million) in 2006.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
As the anger beyond the vicarage rises, the tenor of the debates across the kitchen table grow more urgent.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 6 July 2022
Anyone in 1963 who still wanted fiction set in the vicarage, publishers thought, could go back to Jane Austen, the writer to whom Pym has ceaselessly, and often wrongly, been compared.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
Isotope dating studies of the bodies in the vicarage charnel mound found wide disparities.
—Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vicarage
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Hotel Peter and Paul Set in architecturally rich Faubourg Marigny, the 71-room Hotel Peter and Paul occupies a former church, rectory, schoolhouse, and convent that dates back to the late 1800s.—
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Earlier this year, a church rectory in Cleveland Heights was converted into housing for students, namely women and children in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights school district.—
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Going into the clergy was a common choice for educated young men of middling means, and Malthus was able to secure a parsonage in Wotton, Surrey.—
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Now there are, of course, there's something called a parsonage exception where members of the clergy in the United States can exclude the value of their dwelling, but there's rules that go around with that.—
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The center’s board, now loaded with loyalists such as Maria Bartiromo and Laura Ingraham, of Fox News, made the grave decision at the Palm Beach manse of the casino magnate Steve Wynn, whose wife, Andrea, sits on the board.—
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Drawing superficial inspiration from historic manse styles, their designs allude to the upper echelon, but are often built quickly with inexpensive materials to squeeze the most living space out of a lot size.—
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Fans of the Gothic skyscraper, now owned by Silverstein Properties, can now call its 92nd-floor crown jewel, aka the highest residence in the neighborhood, their own.—
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The fire crews additionally found a dog in the residence that did not survive, per the release.—
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That idea came alive on my favorite day of hiking, ascending through the Val di Chiana—a valley carpeted in red poppies, sunflowers, and sweetgrass—toward the 13th-century hermitage of Celle di San Francesco, where St. Francis is said to have written his last will and testament.—
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That is, until Nile moves in next door, disrupting Aggie’s upstate New York hermitage.—
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In addition to the excess and sometimes dubious roof claims in Colorado, the condominiums are uniquely burdened by a shortage of companies offering insurance policies to multi-unit dwellings, especially in large complexes that require multi-million dollar policies with complex terms.—
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An leads the ensemble as Chang Er, a fairy maiden dwelling in the titular lunar residence with her lover Hou Yi, portrayed by Dominick Rustam.—
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For three quarters, this game lived up to the hype.—
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Banks have enjoyed a Goldilocks-type environment for the last few quarters, with a rebound in Wall Street trading and investment banking, falling interest rates, stable consumer credit and deregulation providing a lift for the sector.—
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Add curtains for privacy and extra hanging space throughout your abode worry-free.—
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Gerold's roots include the first hoteliers in Lech and the architect couple has a distinct talent for creating desirable abodes.—
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“Vicarage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vicarage. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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