garden house

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garden-house

Noun

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garden house (plural garden houses)

  1. A summerhouse.
  2. (US, Southern US) A privy.
  3. (India, historical) An Anglo-Indian suburban villa.[1]
    • 1912, Lal Behari Dey, Folk-tales of Bengal, Life's Secret:
      When Dalim became reanimated at night he ate whatever food he liked, for of such there was a plentiful stock in the garden-house, walked about on the premises, and meditated on the singularity of his lot.

References

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  1. ^ 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)