housewarming

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Apartyto celebrate moving into a newhome.Synonym:(archaic)house-heating1897December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter V, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend thehouse-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.; The act ofwelcominga person/family to theirnewlypurchased or newly rentedhome.ahousewarminggift2004, Jacob M Appel, “Gadney's Immunity”, inSouthwest Review, volume89, number 4, page580:They had their first argument on the evening Gadney moved in, theirhousewarmingspat, he later called it.2011, John Kinsella,The Offering:Fortunately, Dave had left them a packet of rollie tobacco and papers for ahousewarming

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