She used the housephone to call Claire, give her the good news and suggest they meet on the patio for breakfast to go over the remaining details.
2015 October 29, Mary D. Johnson, “Illusions” (chapter 6), in Renwar Vallée[3], Xlibris US:
She could have received the call on her father's phone or the housephone.
2020 December 16 [2020 August 31], Pansy Hinton, Believe in What You Live[4], Christian Faith Publishing, Incorporated:
Ha, why didn't you call me on my cell? What's up with calling the housephone?
2021 [1971], James Atlee Phillips [pseudonym; Philip Atlee], chapter 8, in The Canadian Bomber Contract[5]:
Soon the housephone rang, and a bland voice asked if I had no baggage.
2022 November 3 [2011 August 28], Wade Bey, chapter 17, in Fruits of the Poisonous Tree[6], Page Publishing:
He had turned his cell phone off and taken his housephone off the hook.
2023 January 17, “Horrifying The Contemporary Audience” (chapter 5), in Ahmet Atay, Mary Z. Ashlock, editors, Millennials and Gen Z in Media and Popular Culture[7], Lexington Books, page 103:
In the 2006 version, the loudly ringing green housephone is replaced by a modern black housephone of the 2000s.
