housewarming
a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
Origin of housewarming
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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 ChristopheI should go anyway, whether your house-warming-infair materializes or not.
Dorothy's Travels | Evelyn RaymondThere was a great house-warming, on the night of the day, in which Aunt Dorothy Grumbit was brought back.
Martin Rattler | R.M. BallantyneAnd of course I did so the very first thing, fetching him back with me to make the house-warming complete.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada CambridgeUncle 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
a party given after moving into a new home
(as modifier): a house-warming party
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