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hen run

noun

  1. an enclosure for hens, esp one made of chicken wire

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Light, hot on the “fanatical existence” of furniture and the brightwork of kitchens, on country garage, hen run and mown hay, shines everything, even on the rainiest day, with the reflected or intrinsic glow of an intentional world we think we know—

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“It sat up on Garnethill looking over the entire city. From the hen run at the top of the building, you could sketch the city skyline guided by the straight lines of the window frames. Mackintosh designed this to teach students about perspective.”

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I don’t know if that will be possible this time around, but for future students to be denied the possibility of perching, awestruck in the Mack and using its restored library or wandering along the Hen Run, would be a tragedy in itself.

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Eye witnesses feared that the whole west wing of the old building has been lost, including the irreplaceable Mackintosh library and the Hen Run, a famous corridor running along the roof which linked the west and east wing.

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Witnesses feared that the whole west wing of the old building had been lost, including the irreplaceable Mackintosh library and the Hen Run, a famous corridor along the roof linking the west and east wing.

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