garrison house
Americannoun
-
a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
Etymology
Origin of garrison house
First recorded in 1670–80
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.
Here comes Uncle Jack from the garrison house.
From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Brewster, Edith Gilman
They scarcely had time to alarm the inhabitants, who, to the number of seventy-eight, flocked into the garrison house, when the Indians assailed the town.
From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by Musick, John R. (John Roy)
About a dozen of the troops, on a reconnoitring party, crossed the bridge near the garrison house.
From King Philip Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
While father and Uncle Jack armed themselves with such implements as they had at hand, mother gathered the children together to go with her to the garrison house.
From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Brewster, Edith Gilman
The whole force now gathered for a final attack on the garrison house.
From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis
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.
