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dwelling house en · NOUN

Etymology

From dwelling + house.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dwellinghouse.
   alt of dwellinghouse
   • The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads. 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
   • The rooms on the ground floor are used for the Goods Agent and a coal order office, and the remainder of the building is a dwelling house. 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836:

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