ˈtreasure-ˌhouse
A house, building, or chamber in which treasure is kept; a treasury.
| c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 804/29 Hoc gazafilacium, a treserhouse. 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. 1494 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 241 To put in the copburd in the Tressourhous. 1573–80 Baret Alv. T 351 The place where treasure is kept, a treasure house, aerarium. 1910 Soc. Antiq. O. Sarum Excavation Fund 5 In 1181–2 {pstlg}9 1s were spent on the treasure-house within the tower. |
b. fig.
| 1552 Latimer Serm. (1584) 302 b, The poore mans treasure house is his labour and trauayle. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 34 Why then to thee thou Siluer treasure house. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 135 Intellectual and artistic treasure houses. 1895 Educat. Rev. Oct. 223 The key which unlocks the treasure-house of literature. |