Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Proud of one's house or its furnishings or upkeep.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Careful and busy as a housekeeper; vain of one's housekeeping.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. proud of one's house or its furnishings or upkeep.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep
Etymologies
- From house + proud. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On the first occasion, Sir Ralph, a fireworks enthusiast, had been invited by Olivier and his house-proud future wife, Vivien Leigh, to celebrate her birthday at their bijoux London home.”
“From my window I observed all the preparations, including the meticulous rearrangement along the street of the various pint-sized glossy-red Renault fire-engines so as to open up the necessary space inside the cour; the stocking of large ice-boxes with mountains of refraichements; the watering of the geraniums in the window-boxes; the house-proud sweeping, primping, buffing, and tidying that distinguishes the corporate pride of this small army of efficient, exceptionally handsome young men.”
“As I toured the galleries with the VMFA's ebullient director, Alex Nyerges, and his house-proud curators, it was clear that the 165,000-square-foot expansion, designed by the American-born, London-based architect Rick Mather, had deftly accomplished its purpose providing art-friendly spaces for the museum's large and growing collections and temporary exhibitions, while simplifying the complexities of navigating the museum's original 1936 building, three successive additions and the new wing.”
“To the contrary, the company took on a comeback campaign, identifying new and distinctly on-brand ways to tell its story to appeal to the current and growing house-proud audience.”
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“ I think of this as almost a new museum for the City of New York and I ' m hoping the public will respond in the same way, " the house-proud director declared while escorting me around his fixer-upper, where he had once served as the head of drawings and prints.”
“Lately I've gotten hooked on the How Clean Is Your House series, and danged if I'm not turning into a "house-proud" southern gal.”
“The house-proud Harvester is similarly sex-deprived, but he goes beyond private self-denial to public crusading.”
“Yesterday was interesting in terms of holiday writing on "tradition;" a piece in our local paper about housekeeping, and the idea that it is no longer hip for younger women to be house-proud aligned strangely with another I read, via Bookshelves O' Doom, in the Guardian about 'Girl Wonders', and the subversive charm of the heroine, she who lived outside the circle of the 'normal' and did her own thing.”
“But he hadn't counted on his house-proud wife Jane causing comical mayhem.”
“To drive the point home, Roger pointed out yet another change that took place after the fire: “In contrast to the immaculately clean swept floors of earlier phases, the new floors have much more rubbish on them and are less well kept, perhaps a sign of a not too house-proud elderly male.””
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ruzuzu From the examples: “On the first occasion, Sir Ralph, a fireworks enthusiast, had been invited by Olivier and his house-proud future wife, Vivien Leigh, to celebrate her birthday at their bijoux London home.”
Apr 11, 2013