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Definition of Summerhouses
1. summerhouse [n] - See also: summerhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summerhouses
Literary usage of Summerhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moving to Argentinaby Delores Johnson by Delores Johnson (2006)
"Some are impressive summerhouses. Others are lived in year round. Many are built
on stilts to protect them from flooding. A pleasant day's outing is to take ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1882)
"SEWELL, in reply, admitted that owing to the oppressed state and misgovernment
of Palestine, such noble summerhouses of stone as that shown in Messrs. ..."
3. Putnam's Garden Handbook by Mae Savell Croy (1917)
"The posts of summerhouses should be protected in this way for summerhouses are
expensive and difficult to repost safely when once the legs have rotted. ..."
4. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1883)
"In prosperous times such summerhouses would not be (as often at present) mere
boughs of oleander intertwined like wickerwork, or light awnings, ..."
5. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"A two-car garage, a hothouse for the cultivation of orchids, and three summerhouses
scattered around the estate completed the picture. ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1862)
"Maria installed in one of the summerhouses, and reading a letter! I was the more
surprised to meet her there, that I had heard her repeatedly complain of ..."
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