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Definition of Housewarmings
1. housewarming [n] - See also: housewarming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housewarmings
Literary usage of Housewarmings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (1906)
"We have housewarmings, christenings, and gala days; we keep, if not our own
birthdays, those of our children ; we are apt to fuss ourselves if called upon ..."
2. Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and by William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"... christenings, housewarmings, Ac., should be occasions in which people of all
classes and all descriptions think it right to rejoice and make merry. ..."
3. Pine Needles by Susan Warner (1877)
"... and housewarmings, and christenings; or into the private drinking and gaming
parties in people's houses, the gaming hells at the watering-places, ..."
4. The Mexican Mind: A Study of National Psychology by Wallace Thompson (1922)
"Birthdays, victories, housewarmings, successful voyages or speculations were
celebrated by feasts. . . . The feasting custom was general from lowest to ..."
5. The Proposal: Giving Marriage Back to the People by Helen Wilkinson (1997)
"... family welcoming rituals, and housewarmings, all of which reinforce the need
to consistently reaffirm the changing nature of partnerships in the light ..."
6. The Fountain: A Gift: "to Stir Up the Pure Mind by Way of Remembrance" by Horatio Hastings Weld (1847)
"But hospitality, and hearty good humour, and reconciliation, and farewells, and
welcomes, and housewarmings, and births, and marriages, and even death had ..."
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