† house-roomthn.
Obsolete.
= houseroom n. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] > house-room
houseroom1556
house-roomth1579
lodgingc1720
1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune ii. xlvii. 222 b The first gaue thee house-romth the space of a few monethes.
1606 Official Papers Sir N. Bacon (1915) 191 A Consideracon of or unfittries for him in regard of the poverty of or Towne and or want of howseromth for his intertainemt.
1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 37 [She] gave thee house roomth, the space of a few months.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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