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
It can be grown in the soil of a forcing house under glass, and is extensively produced in this way by market gardeners.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
The plan of the house gives two nearly equal apartments, one to be used as a propagating and forcing house, and the other as a conservatory or show house for plants and flowers.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)
Geraldine had not exaggerated when she called Miss Blackburne's school a forcing house for the marriage market.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah
The office of the Flag was a forcing house for Raphael; many latent thoughts developed into extraordinary maturity.
From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
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