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- noun Plural form of
countinghouse .
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Examples
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She was in the adjoining road, a short curved street with countinghouses and—Oh!
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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She was in the adjoining road, a short curved street with countinghouses and—Oh!
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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Hannah gestured to indicate the countinghouses either side of the wide street.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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The city tore down the old Federal Building two years past, and the lot housed two brand-new countinghouses now.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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Hannah gestured to indicate the countinghouses either side of the wide street.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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The city tore down the old Federal Building two years past, and the lot housed two brand-new countinghouses now.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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Just as the brick towers of New York and Chicago once symbolized America's aspirations to overtake the gable-roofed countinghouses of Europe, today's glass and metal obelisks make a similar assertion about China and its East Asian neighbors -- like Malaysia, which put its capital of Kuala Lumpur on the business map with the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers.
High Time 2007
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Most of the auction venues were in fact here on Pearl Street, because it was hard by both the wharves and the countinghouses.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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Most of the auction venues were in fact here on Pearl Street, because it was hard by both the wharves and the countinghouses.
City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007
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We stayed that night in an inn overlooking the Golden Horn; on the other side of the water, where Hiltons and countinghouses one day would rise, was only an impenetrable darkness.
Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969
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