lodge-house

English

Noun

lodge-house (plural lodge-houses)

  1. Alternative form of lodgehouse
    • 1868 April 4, “Practical Points”, in Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, page 222:
      The burial board for the district of A., purchased twenty acres of land for a cemetery, on which they erected two chapesl, a lodge-house, and a dead house, &c.
    • 1884, The Albany Hand-book, page 87:
      This was the first lodge-house in America.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 304:
      The house was a rambling, Arts and Crafts villa with a lodge-house by the gateposts of its gravelled drive.
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