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1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. 434 There are also five or six hundred receiving Houses in London, and the other Towns.

1824 E. Weeton Jrnl. May (1969) II. 280 I wished to see the General Post Office, so..I took that letter all the way there, instead of putting it into one of the receiving Houses nearer at hand.

1913 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 50 70 Thirty years ago most of the wholesale receiving houses handled the great majority of the farm products in a purely agential capacity.

1996 Independent 18 Jan. 15/3 Cardiff will continue to have no proper opera house, no home for the Welsh National Opera and no receiving house for ballet, large-scale musicals and shows.