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common_house

common house

English

Noun

common house (plural common houses)

  1. (obsolete) A guildhall.
  2. (obsolete) A town or city hall.
  3. (Politics, obsolete) The House of Commons.
  4. (architecture, obsolete) The calefactory: the site of the common fire of a medieval monastery.
  5. (obsolete) An outhouse.
  6. (obsolete) A brothel.

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References

  • "† common house, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary (1891), Oxford: Oxford University Press.