Definitions
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repository forbooks ,library ;store of books
Etymologies
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From book + house. Compare Middle English bochous ("library"), from Old English bōchūs ("library, bookhouse").
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Examples
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There was a much larger turnout than I expected and we packed the little airconditioned office at the "bookhouse", the warehouse where the FoL has their twice a year booksales to raise extra funds for the Alachua County Library District.
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There was a much larger turnout than I expected and we packed the little airconditioned office at the "bookhouse", the warehouse where the FoL has their twice a year booksales to raise extra funds for the Alachua County Library District.
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Image taken on 2008-02-17 14: 57: 54 by bookhouse boy.
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I always assumed I was the only one who ever saw that, bookhouse, to the point that I was beginning to wonder if I had hallucinated it.
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