outhouse

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Growing on the side of the outhouse were the most beautiful morning glories I have ever seen.

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  1. noun A small, enclosed structure having one or two holes in a seat built over a pit and serving as an outdoor toilet.
  2. noun An outbuilding, as on a farm.

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  • The outhouse was an open-fronted shed with a bench on all three sides. —  The Death-Cap Dancers - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 59: 1981
  • The fire to melt the lead was in a shelter we had made behind an outhouse, and here one day, in spite of all our precautions, we were discovered at work, with rows and pyramids of shining bullets round us, and our secret was out. —  Far Away And Long Ago
  • Peter John found quarters for Morag in an outhouse, and after supper went to bed, for he had to be up at four next morning. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
  • A narrow path led through them and up the precipitous slope to the outhouse, a neat wooden structure painted brown, with only the bottom half of a door. —  A Fine and Bitter Snow
  • Growing on the side of the outhouse were the most beautiful morning glories I have ever seen. —  No rules. Just write.
 

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  1. = Swedish uthus = Danish udhus; as out + house.
 

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/ˈaʊthaʊs/
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