housewarming

[ hous-wawr-ming ]
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noun
  1. a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.

Origin of housewarming

1
First recorded in 1570–80; house + warm + -ing1

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How to use housewarming in a sentence

  • In 1838 he attended the house-warming of Heloise Brisetout in rue Chauchat.

    Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
  • I should go anyway, whether your house-warming-infair materializes or not.

    Dorothy's Travels | Evelyn Raymond
  • There was a great house-warming, on the night of the day, in which Aunt Dorothy Grumbit was brought back.

    Martin Rattler | R.M. Ballantyne
  • And of course I did so the very first thing, fetching him back with me to make the house-warming complete.

  • Uncle Abe was terribly bored by the office seekers, even before the Presidential house-warming had scarcely began.

    Lincolniana | Andrew Adderup

British Dictionary definitions for house-warming

house-warming

noun
    • a party given after moving into a new home

    • (as modifier): a house-warming party

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