(anthropology) A society where kinship and political relations are organized around membership in corporately-organized dwellings rather than around descent groups or lineages.

Alternative form of henhouse

Alternative form of henhouse

A brothel with a parlor, often elaborately decorated, for the reception of clients.

(historical) A saloon with cubicles in which customers could tryst with waitresses.

plural of dream house

One's ideal house or home. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dream, house.

(music) A genre of house music influenced by ambient.

present participle of clean house

simple past tense and past participle of clean house