summerhouse
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summerhouses
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of summerhouse
First recorded in 1350–1400, summerhouse is from Middle English sumer hous. See summer 1, house
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In future episodes, we will speak with buyers considering alternatives such as 3D-printed homes or a summerhouse in their parents’ backyard, and with renters opting out of homeownership entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
This memoir affords a peek into the life of a man who seems to arrive at a different summerhouse, packed with good art and faded first editions of novels, in each chapter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
Famously, Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize-winning German author of The Magic Mountain, had a summerhouse here where he’d holiday with his family in the early 1930s.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018
Its trail takes in the poet's favourite drinking establishments, the summerhouse, and the village that became his home.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
For the truth was, it was extremely refreshing to be out in the summerhouse after many continuous days in the main building and neither of us was inclined to hurry with our tasks.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
His fancy peopled the shaded walks and summerhouses, which were scattered about it, with the joyous throng of gallant knights and stately ladies, enjoying themselves with mirth and song.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
In 1621, and in 1624, he repeated his visit, when he built many summerhouses and palaces at Atchabull, Shalimar, &c., and in A.D.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by William Henry Knight
I drew near to the village: all the well-known old summerhouses and gardens were recognised again; I disliked the new ones, and all other alterations which had taken place.
From The Sorrows of Young Werther by R. Dillon Boylan
The grottoes of the superior garden are here replaced by light ranges of arched summerhouses, designed in stucco, and occasionally adorned in their interior with fresco paintings of considerable brightness and beauty.
From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by John Ruskin
For the gardens, sometimes called "hortyards," there were summerhouses, greenhouses, and arbors.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
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