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
He is moreover the greatest gourmand in the kingdom, and condescending to honour the denounced Christians with his company at the house-warming, did ample justice to the novel viands that were placed before him.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
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