housewarming
a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
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How to use housewarming in a sentence
Several city councilmen stood on the porch with housewarming gifts.
Occupy Our Homes: Wall Street Protests’ New Frontier | Michelle Goldberg | December 7, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTI'm going to give a housewarming soon, and I came over to ask Williams here where he bought his graphophone and records.
Green Valley | Katharine ReynoldsAnd they say that Bernard Rollins, the portraiture man, is mixed up in the housewarming too.
Green Valley | Katharine ReynoldsThe affair culminated last evening, the nuptial ceremony being a housewarming tendered by the club.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) | Ida Husted HarperI have now to tell how Aunt Angela was as good as her word about the housewarming of her new abode.
The Debit Account | Oliver Onions
They are giving their housewarming, though they have been only three days settled.
British Dictionary definitions for house-warming
a party given after moving into a new home
(as modifier): a house-warming party
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