forcing house
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the returning light of the sun, and the steadily rising temperature, the ghostly foliage would promptly assume Nature's happy green and the world would ripen with the rapidity of a forcing house.
From The Heart of Unaga by Cullum, Ridgwell
In the few hours she had passed under Lord Buntingford's roof she seemed to herself to have been passing through a forcing house.
From Helena by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
They shipped him out to this tropic forcing house of ours—to let him keep on developing!...
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
The average club perhaps is pre-eminently its forcing house, for there you shall find the growth both multifold and luxuriant.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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