forcing house
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 agrees very well with this conception that the prince himself takes the laurel from the gardener's forcing house to wind a wreath of honor for himself.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.
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
To walk is difficult in a damp steamy temperature hotter during daylight than the hottest forcing house in Kew.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
