treasure house
noun
variants
or less commonly treasure-house
ˈtre-zhər-ˌhau̇s 
ˈtrā-
1
: a building where treasure is kept : treasury
2
: a place or source (such as a collection) where many things of value can be found
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This treasure house of a gallery is Los Angeles’s only luxury emporium to embody ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement that shaped European and USA culture from the 1890s through the 1930s.
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Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Those who have lived in Fort Worth long enough remember the early days of Barber’s Book Store as a downtown institution – a treasure house of volumes that put all the department store book sections to shame.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2025
Planet has a longstanding alliance with Human Rights Watch, Marshall told me, to team up with its investigators worldwide to search through Planet’s treasure house of images in order to chart rights violations.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
The viselike setting is spatially difficult, yet culturally rich in opportunities to comment on the treasure house — with its power, prestige, human vanity and folly — just beyond.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
The former connotes a treasure house of the historically tried and true, while the latter implies the up-to-date.
—Peter Plagens, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020
Lyric poems are gutted for their arguments, fiction treated as polemic, or a treasure house of epigrams.
—Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
The gallery is closed along with the rest of the Smithsonian's treasure houses, and the Obama portraits are scheduled to go on tour next year.
—Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020
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Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Those who have lived in Fort Worth long enough remember the early days of Barber’s Book Store as a downtown institution – a treasure house of volumes that put all the department store book sections to shame.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2025
Planet has a longstanding alliance with Human Rights Watch, Marshall told me, to team up with its investigators worldwide to search through Planet’s treasure house of images in order to chart rights violations.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
The viselike setting is spatially difficult, yet culturally rich in opportunities to comment on the treasure house — with its power, prestige, human vanity and folly — just beyond.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
The former connotes a treasure house of the historically tried and true, while the latter implies the up-to-date.
—Peter Plagens, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020
Lyric poems are gutted for their arguments, fiction treated as polemic, or a treasure house of epigrams.
—Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
The gallery is closed along with the rest of the Smithsonian's treasure houses, and the Obama portraits are scheduled to go on tour next year.
—Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2020
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“Treasure house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treasure%20house. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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