lodge-house

A form of lodgehouse — Synonym of lodge (“type of building”).

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Meanings

nounlodge-house (plural lodge-houses)

plural lodge-houses

  1. alternativeAlternative form of lodgehouse.

    This was the first lodge-house in America.

    1884, The Albany Hand-book, page 87
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    The burial board for the district of A., purchased twenty acres of land for a cemetery, on which they erected two chapesl, a lodge-house, and a dead house, &c.

    1868 April 4, “Practical Points”, in Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, page 222

    The house was a rambling, Arts and Crafts villa with a lodge-house by the gateposts of its gravelled drive.

    2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 304
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