housewarming

[ hous-wawr-ming ]

/ ˈhaʊsˌwɔr mɪŋ /

a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.

Origin of housewarming

First recorded in 1570–80; house + warm + -ing¹

You go on getting your quarters ready for Wednesday's house-warming.

Under Fire |Charles King
It referred to the "house-warming party" they were giving at their "lately acquired cottage in Newport."

The Lion's Mouse |C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
"We must have all the studio crowd in for a house-warming," she answered.

Cinderella Jane |Marjorie Benton Cooke
And there will be a great lodge built by Christmas time and he has told me I might invite you all to come to the house-warming.

Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island |Alice Emerson

This was usually made the occasion of what we term a house-warming.

Reminiscences, 1819-1899 |Julia Ward Howe.

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