Counting-house

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of countinghouse. alt-of, alternative

    "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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"Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house."

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