A house, building, or chamber in which treasure is kept; a treasury.

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c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 804/29. Hoc gazafilacium, a treserhouse.

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1486.  Lichfield Gild Ord., 24. We will and ordeyne that the one parte of the Indentures hereoff made,… remayne in the treasure-house of the seid cathedrall church.

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1494.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 241. To put in the copburd in the Tressourhous.

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1573–80.  Baret, Alv., T 351. The place where treasure is kept, a treasure house, aerarium.

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1910.  Soc. Antiq. O. Sarum Excavation Fund, 5. In 1181–2 £9 1s were spent on the treasure-house within the tower.

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1552.  Latimer, Serm. (1584), 302 b. The poore mans treasure house is his labour and trauayle.

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1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., II. ix. 34. Why then to the thou Siluer treasure house.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 135. Intellectual and artistic treasure houses.

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1895.  Educat. Rev., Oct., 223. The key which unlocks the treasure-house of literature.

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