housewarming
nounEtymology From house + warming.
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Idiomatic A party to celebrate moving into a new home.
- 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 the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
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The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home.
- a housewarming gift
- They had their first argument on the evening Gadney moved in, their housewarming spat, he later called it.2004, Jacob M Appel, “Gadney's Immunity”, in Southwest Review, volume 89, number 4, page 580:
1 more example
- Fortunately, Dave had left them a packet of rollie tobacco and papers for a housewarming2011, John Kinsella, The Offering:
- Antonyms
- house cooling party
- Derived terms
- housewarming party
- Related terms
- infare