Definition of "houselling" []

• Present participle of housel. (verb)

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• "The three ministers had communicated by now; and there was a rustle and clatter of feet as the empty seats in front, hung with houselling cloths, began to be filled."
• "Jean withdrew from the houselling cloth, wondering to be just the same as ever and already disillusioned."
• "The King sent for one of his own chaplains that made the squire confess and do his houselling right well."