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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house used especially in winter.
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Examples
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As he was fond of showing his winter-house, we may go back just seventeen hundred and eighty years and introduce you as his friend Gallus.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Similarly, the ninth month fell in the winter: for it was as he "sat in the winter-house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him" that king Jehoiakim took the prophecy of Jeremiah and "cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth."
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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No doubt the lotus and the acanthus from the Nile grew in that winter-house, and perhaps Jehoiakim attempted -- the most difficult thing in the world the cultivation of the wild flowers from Lebanon.
Backlog Studies Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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But, in fact, the gentleman who sat before the backlog in his winter-house had other things to think of.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The King sat in the winter-house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him ....
Backlog Studies Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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But, in fact, the gentleman who sat before the backlog in his winter-house had other things to think of.
Backlog Studies Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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No doubt the lotus and the acanthus from the Nile grew in that winter-house, and perhaps Jehoiakim attempted -- the most difficult thing in the world the cultivation of the wild flowers from
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The King sat in the winter-house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him ....
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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The winter-house or "jourt," is constructed very differently.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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On a further examination of the spot, we resolved to establish ourselves there, and immediately set to work to erect a habitation which might serve us till our winter-house was ready.
Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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