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Definition of Glasshouse
1. Noun. A building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions.
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Specialized synonyms: Conservatory, Hothouse, Indoor Garden, Orangery
Definition of Glasshouse
1. n. A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
Definition of Glasshouse
1. Noun. A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial). ¹
2. Noun. A building where glass or glassware is manufactured. ¹
3. Noun. (British military slang) A military prison. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glasshouse
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Literary usage of Glasshouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"It was about the beginning of the nineteenth century that great improvements
began to be made in the glasshouse. This new interest was due to the ..."
2. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1888)
"Then, coming back to his starting-point, he may indulge a taste for waterfalls
and fern-gullies on Tambourine Mountain, or among the glasshouse Mountains ..."
3. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1888)
"Then, coming back to his starting-point, he may indulge a taste for waterfalls
and fern-gullies on Tambourine Mountain, or among the glasshouse Mountains ..."
4. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1877)
"Why, the gardener's wife says, Fen- ion has looked another man since he got the
promise of a new glasshouse for beddin' out plants, and all them furrin' ..."
5. The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the by William Howitt (1865)
"Exami- nation of glasshouse, Hervey's, and Moreton Bays by Flinders. THE loss of
a great portion of our North American colonies, to which we had been ..."
6. Nidderdale and the Garden of the Nidd: a Yorkshire Rhineland: Being a by Harry Speight (1894)
"... an old smelting works of the monks of Fountains Abbey—glasshouse Mill—Discovery
of lead ... glasshouse ..."
7. Nidderdale: Or, An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Sketch of the by William Grainge (1863)
"glasshouse MILL, situate between the river Nidd and the Railway, is a large flax
spinning establishment, belonging to the Messrs. Metcalfe. ..."
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