The mansion and demesne in which a county family is seated or established; the residence of a country gentleman or nobleman; a country-house.
[1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 99. Pheebe, to Delos, his natiue contrye seat, hastning.]
1668. Etheredge, She wou’d if She cou’d, V. i. A pretty country seat, madam, with a handsome parcel of land.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 37, ¶ 4. A Description of her Country-Seat … about an hundred Miles distant from London.
1715. Prior, Alma, II. 58. So merchant has his house in town And country-seat near Banstead Down.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., i. 1. Belton Castle is a pretty country seat, standing in a small but beautifully-wooded park.
