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- noun law A
house intended as aresidential building (and not, for example, as a place ofbusiness ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Russian seamen, or furriers, who, with several others, resided at Egoochshac, where they had a dwellinghouse, some storehouses, and a sloop of about thirty tons burden.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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At last I came so near that I saw the dwellinghouse.
Moll Flanders 2003
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Russian seamen, or furriers, who, with several others, resided at Egoochshac, where they had a dwellinghouse, some storehouses, and a sloop of about thirty tons burden.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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At last I came so near that I saw the dwellinghouse.
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923
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Paolo at Rome, in their dwellinghouse on the Celian Hill.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The cocoa-nut, in clumps here and there, forms delightful groves, and these are often frequented by the industrious females for the purpose of manufacturing and painting their tappa — preferring the cool shade and open air to the heat of a dwellinghouse.
Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River 1913
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The appearance of the star of 1572 was so sudden that Tycho Brahe, a celebrated Dutch astronomer, returning one evening from his laboratory to his dwellinghouse, was surprised to find a group of country people gazing at a star which he was sure did not exist half an hour before.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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It is built with as careful calculation to its situation and its requirements as is the country dwellinghouse.
Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896
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The Cranes are reading and loafing in the canvas-curtained summer-house 50 yards away on a higher (the highest) point; the cats are loafing over at "Ellerslie" which is the children's estate and dwellinghouse in their own private grounds (by deed from Susie Crane) a hundred yards from the study, amongst the clover and young oaks and willows.
Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872
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The Cranes are reading and loafing in the canvas-curtained summer-house 50 yards away on a higher (the highest) point; the cats are loafing over at "Ellerslie" which is the children's estate and dwellinghouse in their own private grounds (by deed from Susie Crane) a hundred yards from the study, amongst the clover and young oaks and willows.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Mark Twain 1872
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