consoo-house

Perhaps from council; perhaps from a Chinese word, kung-su, denoting a public hall.

consoo-house (plural consoo-houses)

1. (obsolete) In Canton, a range of buildings adjoining the foreign factories, owned by the hong merchants and used for their meetings.

   Synonym: council hall

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “consoo-house”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].