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ˈrest-house
[f. rest n.1]
1. a. In India, Malaysia or Africa, a building in which travellers may obtain rest and shelter; a choultry, a dawk-bungalow.
1807Cordiner Desc. Ceylon I. 205 The children assemble in the rest-house, as their parish school has fallen a sacrifice to the ravages of time. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 45 There is moreover an empty rest-house or two, merely sufficient to shelter the weary traveller from the rays of the sun. 1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 280 Half that distance is accomplished, which we know by finding a rest-house in the jungle. 1954[see Nigerian n. and a.]. 1964(title) Malaysia: visitors guide. Hotel and rest house directory. 1966D. Forbes Heart of Malaya iii. 43 He..drove to Belinggu and took Abigail to the rest house there. 1972Guardian 22 Sept. 9/1 My night at the Rest House—a hang-over from the colonial days, where Government officials could stay when travelling across country—was interrupted by the distant sound of a gong. 1978G. Greene Human Factor v. ii. 241 He could even imagine himself in Africa, at some resthouse in the bush.
b. An establishment catering for persons requiring rest and recreation.
1928Galsworthy Swan Song iii. ii. 231, I feel I should be ever so much more interested if I ran a place of my own in the country—a sort of rest-house that I could make attractive for girls who wanted air and that.
2. attrib., as rest-house garden, rest-house keeper.
1909Athenæum 24 Apr. 492/1, I dislike the ramshackle rest-house, and its rude indifferent rest-house-keeper. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline xv. 183, I withdrew into the resthouse garden again. |