summerhouse
a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
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How to use summerhouse in a sentence
The spot to which my companion led me was a ruined summerhouse, not a stone's throw from the outer garden hedge.
Rutledge | Miriam Coles HarrisGreatly allarmed, they turned back, and told my grandmother that a strange man was lying in the summerhouse.
Louis Spohr's Autobiography | Louis SpohrShe was in the summerhouse up the garden with her treasures spread out before her.
The Lady of Lynn | Walter BesantI found the captain sitting in the summerhouse alone, without the usual solace of his tobacco and his October.
The Lady of Lynn | Walter BesantThey ran into a wooden summerhouse, painted cunningly after the Chinese fashion, shut themselves in, and drew their swords.
The Jew And Other Stories | Ivan Turgenev
British Dictionary definitions for summerhouse
/ (ˈsʌməˌhaʊs) /
a small building in a garden or park, used for shade or recreation in the summer
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