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  • adjective Alternative spelling of hothouse.

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Examples

  • II. i.66 (32,2) [she professes a hot-house] A _hot-house_ is an English name for a _bagnio_.

    Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Perhaps it is because you are unused to consistent, natural women; because, more likely, you are only familiar with the hot-house breeds, -- pretty, helpless, well-rounded, stall-fatted little things, blissfully innocent and criminally ignorant.

    CHAPTER 10 2010

  • That many high-quality songs on one album, with the accompanying multimedia extras (the videos ... those videos), and, let's face it — a performer who could in this age of hot-house flowered, so-called “studio singers” who cannot get loose live — a performer who could in a four-minute live performance become a jaw-dropping, flesh-and-blood special effect (Motown 25, ya'll) is something beyond rare.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Dowager, matron, and maid, conserving their soft-fat muscles or protecting their hot-house complexions in the shade of the hau-tree arbour, felt the immediate challenge of her.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • That many high-quality songs on one album, with the accompanying multimedia extras (the videos ... those videos), and, let's face it — a performer who could in this age of hot-house flowered, so-called “studio singers” who cannot get loose live — a performer who could in a four-minute live performance become a jaw-dropping, flesh-and-blood special effect (Motown 25, ya'll) is something beyond rare.

    The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson 2009

  • Have you ever tried hot-house smoked salmon, served with sautéed spinach?

    On China not buying salmon from Norway Roberto C. Garcia 2011

  • More boys have died from hot-house culture than have died on boats large and small; and more boys have been made into strong and reliant men by boat-sailing than by lawn-croquet and dancing-school.

    SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

  • "Newt is a bit of a hot-house flower in that way."

    Romney Supporters Push for More-Pointed Rhetoric Neil King Jr. 2011

  • Nuclear is a hot-house plant, requiring lots of government support.

    The Future of Nukes, and of Japan Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • His dog, trotting contentedly along toward the farther reaches of the Sandwalk, would then collapse instantly into a state of utter dejection known to all as “the hot-house face.”

    Heart of Darwin 2008

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