houseroom

plural houserooms

1. uncountableRoom or place in a house.First known use 16th c.

   1786, Frederick Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, p. 38, […] she has more old figures than is worth house room.

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   ‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   […] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room.

   1685, John Dunton, An Hue and Cry after Conscience, London, page 56

   After much inquiry I determined to visit the district of Maros, about thirty miles north of Macassar, where Mr. Jacob Mesman, a brother of my friend, resided, who had kindly offered to find me house-room and give me assistance should I feel inclined to visit him.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 358

   And, Mr. Farfrae, as you provide so much, and houseroom, and all that, I’ll do my part in the drinkables, and see to the rum and schiedam—maybe a dozen jars will be sufficient?

   1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in The Mayor of Casterbridge

2. countableA room dedicated for the use of a particular house at a boarding school.