dwelling-house
See also: dwellinghouse and dwelling house
English
editNoun
editdwelling-house (plural dwelling-houses)
- Alternative form of dwellinghouse.
- 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 331:
- The house was partly pulled down, and that portion which remains, makes a tolerably-sized dwelling-house, nothing more, and is let by the present family.