house place

American  

noun

1. (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.

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Etymology

Origin of house place

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

The bills approved by the Colorado House place tighter regulations upon the advertising and unproven scientific claims of crisis-pregnancy centers, codify protections for providers of abortion- and gender-affirming care, and extend insurance coverage to abortion and other reproductive health-related treatment.

From Seattle Times

So his best friend is planning a birthday party at a bounce house place that happens to be one of my son’s favorites.

From Slate

When Emancipation came, her great-grandparents were working the House Place Plantation, owned by R.A.

From Washington Times

“People want me to say: ‘Yes, if you bring the takeout food in your house, place it on a wooden floor, decontaminate it with 10 percent bleach, leave it for 40 minutes,’ ” she said.

From New York Times

He writes and thinks and reads and worries from a tidy downstairs office surrounded by the trinkets of his past: the White House place card from the night President Trump asked for his “loyalty” as F.B.I. director; a book by Nate Silver, the political data whiz who believes Mr. Comey’s explosively ambiguous letter in October 2016 about the Hillary Clinton email investigation probably handed Mr. Trump the election; a page from a quote-of-the-day calendar, saved for its resonance: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

From New York Times