houseroom

noun

Etymology: From house + room.

1. Room or place in a house.

   “‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’”

   “[…] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room.”

2. A room dedicated for the use of a particular house at a boarding school.