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Country house reportedly displaying style (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

manner

'style' is the definition.
(I know that style can be written as manner)

'country house reportedly' is the wordplay.
'country house' becomes 'manor' (I've seen this before).
'reportedly' shows a homophone (sound like).
'manor' sounds like 'MANNER'.

'displaying' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for manner that I've seen before include "Deportment or method" , "Style, air" , "Way of doing something, or general attitude" , "Way of acting or behaving" , "Mode" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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