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• n  a large and imposing house
• n  the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman)

• Fighting with two swords instead of one gives me a better shot at beating down an opposing mage, while spending hours wending through a haunted manse might win me a coveted staff.
• Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs manse has four bedrooms (each with private bath), a full kitchen, cabana bar and a piano-shaped pool.
• Sinatra, above in 1964, in his four-bedroom manse, which has a piano-shaped pool.

• mansion
• mansion house
• hall
• residence

News & Articles

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• Linkage: Toboggan In Times Square Next Winter; McCarren's Makeover
  · Revisit the everything-is-imported-from Italy OTT UES manse asking $30M · Get ready to ride a toboggan and take out tourists in Times Square · On the Bronx's Stickball Boulevard, the old game still rules · Finding bits and...
  June 11, 2013 - Curbed New York
• Celebrity Real Estate: Billy Joel just sold his 8,881-square-foot...
  Billy Joel just sold his 8,881-square-foot Med-style manse, a colonnaded structure on Miami Beach's La Gorce Island, to Italian shoe guy Diego Della Valle. The songster bought the place for $13.5M in 2006 and originally asked $14.75M; TMZ reports the...
  June 11, 2013 - Curbed
• Kingston Rondout homes tour raises money for CASA
  KINGSTON — Jeff and Barbara Broido welcomed visitors Sunday into their Victorian manse in the Rondout.
  June 10, 2013 - Middletown Times Herald-Record

Quotes

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• Timothy Garton Ash in New York Times
  I think he is seen as a somewhat more solid, son-of-the-manse clergyman's son, giving it to you straight, to the point of being boring,Professor Garton Ash said in a telephone interview. "He's not regarded as a prince of spin or a liar."
• Peter Kellner in CNN International
  Peter Kellner, chairman of YouGov Polls, says: "Whereas Tony Blair came to politics ideologically light, Gordon Brown came ideologically heavy. He is the son of the manse, son of a Church of Scotland minister where social values and moral values...
• Sir Malcolm Rifkind in Newsweek
  The qualities that Brown has could be found in any minister, but if you are the son of the manse, look dour and miserable and have some Scrooge-like characteristics, it is irresistible to link them to being Scottish,says Malcolm Rifkind, a...