Meanings
nounstadthouse (plural stadthouses)
plural stadthouses
- datedA town hall in a Dutch-speaking country or (former) colony.
Mean while, in order to divert his imagination, he went to see the stadthouse, park and arsenal […].
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
Origin
- Dutchstadhuis
- Englishstadthouse
Dutch stadhuis.
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