countinghouse

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A director who sees the countinghouse at the center of the play cannot take seriously Portia's enchanted realm of Belmont, with its fairy-tale plot and flowery sentiments.

From Time Magazine Archive

But many a Yankee countinghouse was foreclosed, many a proud harpooner sent back to the plow.

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Its dingy, fourth-floor Manhattan offices resemble a countinghouse out of Charles Dickens.

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Even Jack Kemp got left in the countinghouse to pine for evanescing gold.

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My courage failed me at the sight of a countinghouse or shop crowded with men, bartering and contending loudly with one another.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein