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glasshouse
[ glas-hous, glahs- ]
noun
, plural glass·hous·es [glas, -hou-ziz, glahs, -].
- a glassworks.
- Chiefly British. a green-house.
- British Informal. a military prison.
glasshouse
/ ˈɡlɑːsˌhaʊs /
noun
- a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions
- obsolete.a military detention centre
- another word for glassworks
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When the glasshouse site was excavated in 1948 only small fragments and drippings—dark green in color—were found.
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On the way thither an old-fashioned yew hedge may be seen round about a vast glasshouse.
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Daisy said it was a place in Glasshouse Street for which she had no very great affection.
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All the glasshouse was spanned and arched over with one beautiful vine.
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A long-established legend that beads were manufactured at the Jamestown glasshouse is without archeological evidence.
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