fore huis, noun phrase

Forms:
Also forehause.
Origin:
Partial translation of Dutch voorhuis.
obs.
voorhuis.
a1873 J. Burrow Trav. in Wilds of Afr. (1971) 12Late in the evening we found Cotton..waiting for us, having provided a dinner at the hotel, which we found smoking on the table in the fore huis.
1878 H.A. Roche On Trek in Tvl 134The ‘fore huis’ or general room.
1900 H. Butterworth Trav. Tales 46‘May I go to the fore huis (front house)?’ gasped the youth.
1935 P. Smith Platkops Children 77We all went in to the forehause where dinner was ready for us.
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