icehouse
Americannoun
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icehouses
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Origin of icehouse
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First, Earth rapidly shifted from a warm greenhouse state to a cold icehouse climate.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026
The musician, who would become synonymous with Key West, started leasing the old icehouse in the city’s historic seaport district in 1986.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
And as we well know from our present habit of turning an icehouse climate into a greenhouse one, an altered climate dramatically affects life on our planet.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
The second phase of whale evolution unfolded as the planet transformed into a so-called icehouse world.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2023
We turned to see her pointing at the wrecked icehouse, where broken boards had begun to shift in the collapsed pile.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
He walked the beat among the icehouses and lower-income neighborhoods of a mostly Black community, and never had a problem.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2023
It is revealing that when Opie does include people or their idiosyncratic structures — the icehouses, surfers, football players — they are uniting in inhospitable settings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
Venturing away from her home turf, she portrayed icehouses built for fishermen on frozen lakes in northern Minnesota, overhead walkways in Minneapolis, and pedestrian-eye views of St. Louis, Chicago and New York’s Wall Street.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
Eat this: The upper Hudson Valley was home to many Italian immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and headed upriver to work in the brick factories and icehouses.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
In the United States, it is common to protect ice, in icehouses, by a covering of straw, which naturally sometimes contains kernels of grain.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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