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English
Noun
office-house (plural office-houses)
- (obsolete) A building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office.
1827, Thomas Carlyle, Ludwig Tieck's "The Elves":That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses.
1632, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteen Yeares Travayles, section 10.444:This Pallace ... hath neither outward walles nor gates ... save onely some office houses without.
Usage notes
- In later use, only in the plural.
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