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ˈcourt-house
1. A building in which courts of law are held.
1483Cath. Angl. 79 A Cowrthouse. 1776Virginia Hist. Coll. 31 Mar. VI. 159 To be Call'd on the Parade Nere the Court House to-morrow. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxvii, She had looked anxiously for Butler in the court-house. 1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 33 At the east side of the Square [in Wigtown] is the new Court-house.
2. A manorial dwelling: cf. court n.1 2. (South of Eng.)
1857G. Oliver Cath. Relig. Cornw. 60 Cannington..Lord Clifford frequently resided at its noble Court-house.
3. U.S. (chiefly southern). = county seat (see county1 8 b).
1856Olmsted Slave States (1859) 80 She went to a Sunday-school at the Court House. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Court-House. The county towns of Virginia are often called so without regard to their proper names. Thus Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court-House. 1887C. W. Super in N.Y. Nation 27 Oct. 331 The word court-house for county-seat is probably of Southern origin, though there are at least two county-seats in Ohio that still retain this designation. |