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
FTC is soon to move to new quarters and last week Congress gave it a house-warming gift�the first amendments to the 1914 Act ever passed.
From Time Magazine Archive
He presided over a house-warming at his paper's new London home.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
At the house-warming the guests were obliged to sleep on corded beds and to eat reclining on couches; and even more intimate conveniences were modeled on the principle of hygiene known to the ancient C�sars.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente
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