treasure-housen.
a. A house, building, or chamber in which treasure is kept; a treasury.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > treasury > [noun]
treasuryc1290
coffer1377
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hoard-housec1440
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thesaurhouse1488
thesaurer house1489
thesaurary house1495
gold housea1500
thesaurary1592
reconditory1633
thesaurya1639
thesaurus1823
chancery1842
trove1976
1486 in F. J. Furnivall Gild of St. Mary, Lichfield (1920) 24 We will and ordeyne that the one parte of the Indentures hereoff made,..remayne in the treasure-house of the seid cathedrall church.
1494 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 241 To put in the copburd in the Tressourhous.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 804/29 Hoc gazafilacium, a treserhouse.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 302 The place where treasure is kept: a treasure house, aerarium.
1910 Soc. Antiq. O. Sarum Excavation Fund 5 In 1181–2 £9 1s were spent on the treasure-house within the tower.
b. figurative.
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1552 H. Latimer Serm. (1584) 302 b The poore mans treasure house is his labour and trauayle.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ix. 33 Why then to thee thou siluer treasure house . View more context for this quotation
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 135 Intellectual and artistic treasure houses.
1895 Educat. Rev. Oct. 223 The key which unlocks the treasure-house of literature.
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