pothouse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Sealed in blood!" croaks Long John Silver to his sidekick, Jim Hawkins, as they skulk in the corner of a dingy pothouse and plot their return to Treasure Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery.
From Time Magazine Archive
As his home is cold and cheerless, when he is not on duty he lives at a pothouse.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry
He is sure to have gone to some pothouse.
From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
With the best will in the world, and the liveliest financial encouragement from Mr. Twist, the architect couldn't in three weeks turn a wooden Californian cottage into an ancient red-brick Elizabethan pothouse.
From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth
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