treasure house

or treasure-house

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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.

Origin of treasure house

1
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75

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How to use treasure house in a sentence

  • Iftikhar drew from his bosom a tiny silk bag, and took forth a ring set with a single emerald, worth an emir's treasure house.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • For he was certain that the isolated structure Soriki had pointed out was not the treasure house they had come to loot.

    Star Born | Andre Norton
  • At last he picked it up and carried it to his treasure-house and covered it over very carefully.

    Blacky the Crow | Thornton W. Burgess
  • Enough to say that this treasure-house of art is apt to give the visitor a sense of general splendour on the brain.

  • In this literary treasure-house Borrow found facilities for study such as he nowhere else could hope to obtain.

    The Life of George Borrow | Herbert Jenkins