The Only Use of
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Ethan Frome
- I saw then that the unusually forlorn and stunted look of the house was partly due to the loss of what is known in New England as the "L": that long deep-roofed adjunct usually built at right angles to the main house, and connecting it, by way of storerooms and tool-house, with the wood-shed and cow-barn.†
Chpt Open
Definition:
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(forlorn) sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned