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
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 presided over a house-warming at his paper's new London home.
From Time Magazine Archive
When this observatory was finished, Scott-Hansen gave a house-warming, the hut being magnificently decorated for the occasion.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen
And then he went to town to invite his brother and his wife to the house-warming.
From Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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