garden house
English
Noun
garden house (plural garden houses)
- A summerhouse.
- 1606, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, Act II, scene i:
- this is no garden-house
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- (US, Southern US) A privy.
- (India, historical) An Anglo-Indian suburban villa.
References
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “garden house”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for garden house under garden in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)