counting-house

See also: countinghouse and counting house

English

Noun

counting-house (plural counting-houses)

  1. Alternative form of countinghouse
    • 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
      The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
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