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ˈtreasure-ˌhouse
A house, building, or chamber in which treasure is kept; a treasury.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 804/29 Hoc gazafilacium, a treserhouse. 1486Lichfield Gild Ord. 24 We will and ordeyne that the one parte of the Indentures hereoff made,..remayne in the treasure-house of the seid cathedrall church. 1494Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 241 To put in the copburd in the Tressourhous. 1573–80Baret Alv. T 351 The place where treasure is kept, a treasure house, aerarium. 1910Soc. Antiq. O. Sarum Excavation Fund 5 In 1181–2 {pstlg}9 1s were spent on the treasure-house within the tower.
b. fig.
1552Latimer Serm. (1584) 302 b, The poore mans treasure house is his labour and trauayle. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 34 Why then to thee thou Siluer treasure house. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 135 Intellectual and artistic treasure houses. 1895Educat. Rev. Oct. 223 The key which unlocks the treasure-house of literature. |