dwelling-house

plural dwelling-houses

1. alternativeAlternative form of dwellinghouse.

   It was one of the reasons that one felt a disinclination to enter any dwelling-house.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 143

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   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.

   1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 331

   One acre of the whole was in clover, another was set aside as being occupied by the dwelling-house, garden, stable, and barnyard; but much the larger half of that acre was allowed for garden purposes. This left me just nine acres for general fruit and vegetable culture.

   1864, Edmund Morris, “Chapter VI: Planting a peach orchard. How to preserve peach-trees”, in Ten Acres Enough: A Practical Experience Showing How a Very Small Farm May be Made to Keep a Very Large Family, With Extensive and Profitable Experience in the Cultivation of the Smaller Fruits, New York: James Miller, page 42