houseroom

From house +‎ room.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊsɹuːm/

houseroom (countable and uncountable, plural houserooms)

1. (uncountable) Room or place in a house. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     ‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’

   • 1685, John Dunton, An Hue and Cry after Conscience, London, p. 56,

     […] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room.

   • 1786, Frederick Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, p. 38,

     […] she has more old figures than is worth house room.

   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 43,

     And, Mr. Farfrae, as you provide so much, and houseroom, and all that, I’ll do my part in the drinkables, and see to the rum and schiedam—maybe a dozen jars will be sufficient?

2. (countable) A room dedicated for the use of a particular house at a boarding school.

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