forcing house

British  

noun

1. a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened

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forcing house

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

Even the new forcing house had lost its attractions for him, and Tom, after some further ineffectual attempts to bring him round, returned to the house somewhat crestfallen.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

I mean those that really came over with a single purpose and were not proof against the forcing house of war.

From The Sisters-In-Law by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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.