house-warming
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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You can't go to someone's house-warming, or post-christening tea party without some eejit waiting for the opportunity to pounce on an abandoned laptop, so they can crank up Will.i.am or Chase'n'DaveStatus.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2013
The three-story Manhattan penthouse apartment of William S. Paley, 27-year-old president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., was given a house-warming while the owner was in Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
He presided over a house-warming at his paper's new London home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tom heard a company of women that would meet at the place a house-warming, to welcome one of the house.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
Originally the idea had been to make it a kind of house-warming as well as a formal announcement of Jack's engagement.
From The Ranch Girls at Home Again by Margaret Vandercook
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