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- noun obsolete A building or
outhouse on a farm,estate ,manor , palace, etc. used forhousehold work,storage , housing servants, etc; the office of thesteward orbailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office.
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Examples
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Lord Leitrim made the man who built it, who had got permission to build from the good Earl, tear down the chimney and make an office-house of it, on pain of eviction.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862
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Saturday at the NAMI office-house at the intersection of North West 13th Street and Indiana Avenue in Richmond.
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