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full house

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full house
1. Poker a hand with three cards of the same value and another pair
2. a theatre, etc., filled to capacity
3. (in bingo, etc.) the set of numbers needed to win
full house
A house having rooms symmetrically located on both sides of a chimney; for example, see the illustration under full Cape house.
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But as Nature often exhibits some of her best performances to a very full house, so will the behaviour of her spectators no less admit the above-mentioned comparison than that of her actors.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Other singers are there, to be sure, to whom only the full house maketh the voice soft, the hand eloquent, the eye expressive, the heart wakeful:-- those do I not resemble.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
I don't know how many of the fine people at the Leas are coming with him: he sends directions for all the best bedrooms to be prepared; and the library and drawing-rooms are to be cleaned out; I am to get more kitchen hands from the George Inn, at Millcote, and from wherever else I can; and the ladies will bring their maids and the gentlemen their valets: so we shall have a full house of it.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
 
 
 
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