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ˈhouse-place, houseplace
The name in many parts of England of the common living-room in a farm-house or cottage; = house n.1 1 b.
1812Examiner 7 Sept. 564/1 His mistress met him in the house-place. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede i. iv, Gyp..followed Lisbeth into the house-place. 1865E. Meteyard Josiah Wedgwood I. 200–1 From this garden you entered at once, as was then universally the custom, into the roomy house⁓place or kitchen. 1894Athenæum 6 Oct. 459/1, I can take him into a farmhouse close to my residence, where he will find a very picturesque old ‘houseplace’ (always spoken of as such), that is, half best kitchen and half sitting-room, where the family..live and sit at nights. |