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1662 T. Blount Boscobel (new ed.) i. 6 John Giffard, Esq; having built this house about thirty years since, invited Sir Basil Brook, with other Friends and Neighbours, to a house-warming Feast.

1675 Mock Songs & Joking Poems 33 (heading) On a House-warming Feast.

1843 R. H. Barham House-warming in New Monthly Mag. July 352 A good town-house obtained, The next thing of course to be thought of, is now The ‘house-warming’ party—the when, and the how.

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxxiv. 276 He had given the usual house-warming dinner.

1871 Grantley Vivian I. xi. 133 I must put in my house-warming gift, one of Hopkinson's pianos.

1924 Times 14 May 11/2 On the previous evening the executive committee held a small ‘house warming’ dinner.

1961 C. McCullers Clock without Hands iv. 78 A house-warming present..not too modern or attractive, but it's the thought that counts.

2003 Radio Times 7 June (Midlands ed.) 92/3 Jess and Lisa invite him to their house-warming party.., but the poor thing is much too shy and gauche to deal with their predatory wiles.