forcing house
Britishnoun
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Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the returning light of the sun, and the steadily rising temperature, the ghostly foliage would promptly assume Nature's happy green and the world would ripen with the rapidity of a forcing house.
From The Heart of Unaga by Cullum, Ridgwell
The unrivaled French opera is in season, the forcing house of that bright garden of exotics.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
Geraldine had not exaggerated when she called Miss Blackburne's school a forcing house for the marriage market.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah
Even the new forcing house had lost its attractions for him, and Tom, after some further ineffectual attempts to bring him round, returned to the house somewhat crestfallen.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
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