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ice house

British  

noun

  1. a building for storing ice

"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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But he survived the pandemic slump with the place he opened in Old Town Alexandria, in an old ice house.

From Washington Post Mar. 13, 2023

Until the burly men at the ice house loaded two big bags of ice into the back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2021

A decade ago, I visited an ice house in Madras, modern-day Chennai – now known as Vivekananda House – an engineering marvel.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2020

Some maps of Brooklyn farmland depicted “a mansion house, and the ice house, and the oyster shack, and the grapery,” Ms. Brenwall said.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2017

Occasionally an ice house blocks their path and they have to back up, return the way they came.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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