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rambling

/ˈɹæm.blɪŋ/ adjective C1
  1. Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
  2. Confused and irregular; awkward.
  3. Winding irregularly in various directions.
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Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde’s Hollow.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 3 · C1
“‘You must know,’ said he, ‘that though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone, for it is a rambling old place, and takes a good deal of looking after.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 7 · B2
“‘I have said that the house is a rambling one.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 8 · B2
"The house was so large and so rambling that a regiment might be hid away in it and no one the wiser.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 12 · B2

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