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outbuilding

American  
[out-bil-ding] / ˈaʊtˌbɪl dɪŋ /

noun

  1. a detached building subordinate to a main building.

outbuilding British  
/ ˈaʊtˌbɪldɪŋ /

noun

  1. a building subordinate to but separate from a main building; outhouse

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Etymology

Origin of outbuilding

First recorded in 1620–30; out- + building

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Outbuilding, owt′bild-ing, n. a building separate from, but used in connection with, a dwelling-house or a main building: an outhouse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Outbuilding the South of course meant tightening the "anaconda" system of blockade, in the entangling coils of which the South was caught already.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry

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