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ˈhouse-room
Room or accommodation in a house for a person or thing; lodging.
1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iii. 41 Here is at his gate an errant Knight, That house-rome craves. 1601Death Earl Huntington iv. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 296 And thou find'st house-room in this nunnery. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 370 They dare hardly give it House-room, or afford it a place in their Libraries. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. ix. 193, I must trouble you to give this man house-room for a few days. Mod. The amount of rubbish for which he finds house-room is incredible.
fig.1586Praise of Mus. 29 A precious stone may be set in ledde, and [etc.], in which cases wee..pittie their vnfortunate houserome. a1618Raleigh Advice of Son Rem. (1661) 116 Being..turned both out of service and house⁓room of this wicked world. 1892A. B. Bruce Apologetics Introd. i. 25 His [Lessing's] large genial nature gave house⁓room to ideas and tendencies not easily reconciled. |