"office-house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: office-houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} office-house (plural office-houses)
  1. (obsolete) A building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: officehouse
    Sense id: en-office-house-en-noun-s6j8Mah6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1827, Thomas Carlyle, Ludwig Tieck's \"The Elves\":",
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          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1632, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteen Yeares Travayles, section 10.444:",
          "text": "This Pallace ... hath neither outward walles nor gates ... save onely some office houses without.",
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        [
          "estate",
          "estate"
        ],
        [
          "manor",
          "manor"
        ],
        [
          "household",
          "household"
        ],
        [
          "storage",
          "storage"
        ],
        [
          "steward",
          "steward"
        ],
        [
          "bailiff",
          "bailiff"
        ],
        [
          "house of office",
          "house of office"
        ]
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        "(obsolete) A building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office."
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        ],
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        [
          "storage",
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          "steward"
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