Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house or building in which soap is made.
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Examples
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If desired, the oil may be brightened and filtered, after refining to produce a marketable article, but if it is being refined for own use in the soap-house, this may be omitted.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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_ -- The spent lyes withdrawn from the soap-pans are cooled, and the soap, which has separated during the cooling, is carefully removed and returned to the soap-house for utilisation in the manufacture of brown soap.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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The other works for public advantage to which we have severally applied the monies resulting from our village trade, along with the contributions of friends of the Mission, are road-making, building a saw-mill, blacksmith's shop, soap-house, and large carpenters 'shops and work-sheds.
Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission Eugene Stock 1882
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At this procedure, the master charged George with provoking the beast to do wickedly, and in a rage he collared George, and bade him accompany him up the stairs of the soap-house.
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Looking confused, he left the soap-house, and went to his office, to await the dispersion of the crowd.
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So, to his surprise, when the master returned with his cowhide, he found that a large number of curiosity-seekers had been attracted to the soap-house to see Mr. Denny perform with his cowhide on George's back, as he was stretched up by his hands.
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There beyond it was the soap-house with its barred window, the tall chimney, and, on looking over, there were the usual litter of old and new boxes, while an unpleasantly scented steam was floating out upon the evening air.
The Golden Magnet George Manville Fenn 1870
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From having been fixed in a place originally occupied by a soap-house, it is called
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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