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icehouse

American  
[ahys-haus] / ˈaɪsˌhaʊs /

noun

  • icehouses
    plural
  1. a building for storing ice.


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Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of icehouse

First recorded in 1680–90; ice + house


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Tyrannoroter lived near the end of the Carboniferous Period, a time of major climate change and the last icehouse to greenhouse transition before the one occurring today.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 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

On the other side was a little icehouse, just a lean-to shed floored Crowding the room were a dozen rectangular troughs raised on sawhorses and filled with ice.

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

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

The urban farmer within each of us can thrill to the smell of freshly sawn tree trunks, to cogs and pulleys, icehouses and watercourses.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019

Elsewhere, however, the ice was strong, for all the cutting for the big icehouses had been done long before near the Landing.

From Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret by Annie Roe Carr

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