parish house
noun
a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
(especially in the Roman Catholic Church) the residence of a cleric.
Origin of parish house
1First recorded in 1755–65
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How to use parish house in a sentence
One night there was a little entertainment at the parish house and I had my way.
Contrary Mary | Temple BaileyWhen the Reverend Samuel Thaddeus died, they had built him, not a monument, but a parish house.
The Confession | Mary Roberts RinehartHe lived with him in the parish house and took a zealous part in his pastor's practices and mortifications.
As they drove along, he looked with a speculative eye on one or two eligible sites for the parish house.
Short Sixes | H. C. BunnerIt is now used as the house of worship, while the Methodist Church has become a gymnasium and parish house.
Six Thousand Country Churches | Charles Otis Gill
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