consoo-house

English

Etymology

Perhaps from council; perhaps from a Chinese word, kung-su, denoting a public hall.

Noun

consoo-house (plural consoo-houses)

(obsolete) In Canton, a range of buildings adjoining the foreign factories, owned by the hong merchants and used for their meetings.
Synonym: council hall

References

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “consoo-house”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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