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- noun A
garage or a building for a car. Typically separate from a house.
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Examples
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In the car-house your first employment will be sweeping up, washing the windows, keeping things clean.
Chapter 20 2010
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Not immediately can you in any capacity enter the car-house.
Chapter 20 2010
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Not immediately can you in any capacity enter the car-house.
Chapter XX 1913
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In the car-house your first employment will be sweeping up, washing the windows, keeping things clean.
Chapter XX 1913
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And after you have shown yourself satisfactory at that, then you may become a helper to the car-house electricians.
Chapter XX 1913
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This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house.
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This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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Not immediately can you in any capacity enter the car-house.
John Barleycorn Jack London 1896
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In the car-house your first employment will be sweeping up, washing the windows, keeping things clean.
John Barleycorn Jack London 1896
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At a little distance from the car-house the strikers again drew together and stood mostly in gloomy silence, their eyes ever turning toward the closed doors of the great building before them.
The Bishop's Shadow 1883
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