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  • noun Plural form of summerhouse.

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Examples

  • They may do just about anything, from discreet summerhouses to conspicuous public buildings, but each commission has its own aesthetic.

    Making a Mark on Sweden's Landscape J. S. Marcus 2011

  • Take a boat ride up the Bosphorus between the Asian and European shores and admire the yalis (summerhouses) as you cruise up to the Black Sea and back, then enjoy a caffeinated nightlife somewhere rad or trad before retreating to your hip hideaway.

    Juliet Kinsman: Hip and Historical Istanbul Juliet Kinsman 2010

  • "Do you all have summerhouses and cabins?" the foreign students asked my daughter, as she and her friends planned to bring them out to a family-owned cabin for a real Norwegian treat.

    Norwegian vacation Torill 2008

  • "Do you all have summerhouses and cabins?" the foreign students asked my daughter, as she and her friends planned to bring them out to a family-owned cabin for a real Norwegian treat.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Torill 2008

  • There is no such place in that part now; but it remained there for many years, looking with a baulked countenance at the wilderness patched with unfruitful gardens and pimpled with eruptive summerhouses, that it had meant to run over in no time.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • We shared group summerhouses and hung out in the city, going to movies, parties, and street fairs.

    Share The Care Cappy Capossela 2004

  • We shared group summerhouses and hung out in the city, going to movies, parties, and street fairs.

    Share The Care Cappy Capossela 2004

  • We shared group summerhouses and hung out in the city, going to movies, parties, and street fairs.

    Share The Care Cappy Capossela 2004

  • There were no iron picket fences, iron summerhouses, iron gates or even iron statuary on the lawns of Atlanta now, for they had early found their way into the melting pots of the rolling mills.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • There were no iron picket fences, iron summerhouses, iron gates or even iron statuary on the lawns of Atlanta now, for they had early found their way into the melting pots of the rolling mills.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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