office-house

== English == === Alternative forms === officehouse === Noun === office-house (plural office-houses) (obsolete) A building or outhouse on a farm, estate, manor, palace, etc. used for household work, storage, housing servants, etc; the office of the steward or bailiff on a manor or estate; a house of office. ==== Usage notes ==== In later use, only in the plural. ==== References ==== John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “office-house”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.