icehouse
noun
a building for storing ice.
icehouses
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pluralof icehouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Archeological excavations revealed that icehouses were built on the historic island over 300 years ago.
From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by John L. Cotter
