treasure house

Or treasure-house

noun

1. a building, room, or chamber used as a storage place for valuables; treasury.

2. a place or source where things of value or worth may be found.

   Books are the treasure house of ideas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of treasure house¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75

Example Sentences

The viselike setting is spatially difficult, yet culturally rich in opportunities to comment on the treasure house — with its power, prestige, human vanity and folly — just beyond.

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This is also a period when museums are seen as overstocked treasure houses.

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Tucked inside the Met’s Korea gallery you’ll find a treasure house of stationery boxes, furniture and even stirrups covered with slick black lacquer and inlaid with glittering mother-of-pearl.

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Once a saffron-scented cultural treasure house, present-day Herat still looks proudly to its rich heritage of Persian poetry, miniaturist painting and resplendent architecture.

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The artist competes not only with the breathtaking vista of Central Park, framed by a forest of Manhattan luxury towers, but also with the aura of the treasure house downstairs.

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