libken

A house or lodging.

Noun

  1. A house or lodging.
    • c. 1607-1610, Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl No, we scorn to be pure rogues, but if you come to our libken, or our stalling-ken, you shall find neither him nor me a queer cuffin.
    • To their libkins at the Crackmans. - 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:
    • These are the fees I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himself. - 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […]...

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libkens libkin