Definition of "housewarming" []

• A celebration of the occupancy of a new home. (noun)

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• "It could scarce be called a housewarming; for there was, of course, no fire, and with the two open doors and the open window gaping on the night, like breaches in a fortress, it began to grow rapidly chill."
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