dwelling-house

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English

Noun

dwelling-house (plural dwelling-houses)

  1. Alternative form of dwellinghouse.
    • 1842, Thomson, chapter XIX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 331:
      The house was partly pulled down, and that portion which remains, makes a tolerably-sized dwelling-house, nothing more, and is let by the present family.