houseplacen.
/ˈhaʊspleɪs/, U.S. /ˈhaʊsˌpleɪs/ Chiefly English regional (midlands and northern).
A room in a house, esp. a farmhouse or cottage, used as the ordinary living space, typically the kitchen. Cf. house n.1 1c.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > living room > in farmhouse
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1756 London Mag. Jan. 6/2 They were called one by one in their turns into another room, which seemed to be the kitchen or house-place.
1832 R. V. Barnewell & J. L. Adolphus Rep. Cases Court of King's Bench II. 870 The house [in Compton Row, Macclesfield] consisted of a house-place, a chamber over the house-place, and over that..a garret which extended over the lower rooms in the adjoining house.
1865 E. Meteyard Life J. Wedgwood I. v. 200 From this garden you entered at once, as was then universally the custom, into the roomy houseplace or kitchen.
1894 Athenæum 6 Oct. 459/1 A farmhouse..[with] 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.
1912 in R. Tongue Forgotten Folk-Tales Eng. Counties (1970) iii. v. 202 Gilsland's lord had a silky who cleaned the house-place, devilled and punched lazy serving-wenches and kept all shining clean.
1992 B. Harley & J. Harley Gardener at Chatsworth ii. 21 The houseplace was the general sitting room and the two chambers were bedrooms.
2000 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 18 Dec. 16 Dr Elliott, originally from Yorkshire, didn't realise that ‘house’ or ‘houseplace’ is Derbyshire dialect for living room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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