summerhouse
Americannoun
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
Example Sentences
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The defendant went on to use the shower in a summerhouse to wash and clean his clothes.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
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
“When I first got married, my wife wanted a summerhouse and I wanted a Swan—I bought the Swan first,” says Ferragamo, who visits the yard every two or three months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2015
Dacha rhymes with cha-cha and is the Russian word for a summerhouse.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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 Hauff, Wilhelm
In every town there stood "scaffolding" or raised platforms, where the inhabitants frequently sat and conversed, and which served somewhat the same purpose as our own outdoor summerhouses of olden times.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee
Nothing but summerhouses on a large scale are the South California barns.
From Ramona by Jackson, Helen Hunt
Passing again to the front of the house, Lecour saw the mob angrily tearing up garden benches and summerhouses for the same purpose.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
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 Boylan, R. Dillon
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