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Etymology
Origin of oast-house
First recorded in 1755–65
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She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there until Mr. Fry came back to Sussex for keeps.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, it’s in the pigeon-cote up agen Dawson’s oast-house, only he won’t have ’em touched.”
From Burr Junior by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
As we drew up at the fatal corner, the others came out of the oast-house to see what was making the noise.
From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates
‘Well, ain’t that just me?’ said the Bee Boy, where he sat in the silver square of the great September moon that was staring into the oast-house door.
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham
Not for nothing had he watched the men thatching the oast-house by the Medway.
From Harding's luck by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
The farmers have been drying their damp wheat in the oast-houses over charcoal fires, and wages are lowered, and men discharged.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies
A little gabled, red-roofed house at the foot of some Sussex down, with fruit trees and a high hedge round it, and only the oast-houses peeping over.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
Between the streams trickling down he began to catch green vistas of hops with their quaint, peaked oast-houses like the caps worn by hob-goblins from the pages of a fairy book.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine
Then, on the other side of the moat there is the farm, with barns and oast-houses and stables, or things like that.
From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit
A hop-garden was one of the sights connected with Philip's boyhood and the oast-houses to him the most typical feature of the Kentish scene.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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