Usually means: Traditional Scottish two-room cottage.
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  1. but-and-ben, but and ben: Merriam-Webster
  2. but and ben, but and ben: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. but and ben: Collins English Dictionary
  4. but and ben: Wiktionary
  5. But and ben: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. but and ben: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (but and ben)

▸ noun:  (Scotland) A two-roomed cottage; a small house or shack
▸ adverb:  In the inner and outer parts of a building

Similar:
bothy, cottage, shack, bole, houselet, casita, cabinette, bedsit, bigging, cobhouse, more...

Opposite:
front and back, entrance and exit, ingress and egress

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Similar:
bothy, cottage, shack, bole, houselet, casita, cabinette, bedsit, bigging, cobhouse, more...

Opposite:
front and back, entrance and exit, ingress and egress



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