open house

Definition

A house habitually kept open to callers.

Example Sentences

• "He keeps a kind of open house for all the respectable young men of the town who are staying in lodgings."
• "My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely swung."
• "The founding secretary and treasurer are a well-known gay couple retired to the arid Mal[l]ee (a kind of small eucalypt tree) country near Swan Reach, about an hour and a half drive from Adelaide, where they keep virtually open house for gay men."