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1839 A. D. Bache Rep. Educ. in Europe i. i. 37 Ten or a dozen boys are invited to take tea in the teacher's room during his term of duty as house-master.

1855 J. A. Symonds Let. Oct. (1967) I. 64 Tom Parr who has just joined his regiment came down here today with an old house fellow.

1857 T. Hughes Let. 15 Nov. I. 126 Yesterday I played in a house match.

1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 124 I thought the house-prefects might know more about it than I did. They ought to. They're giddy palladiums of public schools.

1908 A. Huxley Let. Nov. (1969) 29 M'tutor, who is also my house tutor and my division beak, is a dear man.

1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment vii. 93 A boy of this kidney, while looking on at a vital house match, will give his mind ease by telling a friend what ‘a lot of stinkers’ the other house are.

1925 City of Oxf. Sch. Mag. July 33 In the points counting for the House Shield.

1949 W. B. Gallie Eng. School ii. 31 He managed to infuse his ideas into the masters who coached the school's junior fifteens, house fifteens, and so on.

1966 P. Willmott Adolescent Boys E. London v. 93 After registration I took house prayers as House Captain.

1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 585 Fiercely fought house-matches,..all of us staring open-mouthed as some schoolboy legend passed by.

2010 South Wales Argus (Nexis) 12 Apr. To get a house tie the boys have to represent their house in a sport..and raise money for charity.