Definitions
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- noun The portion of a
passenger railway terminal not housing thetracks andplatforms , comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc. - noun The
overground portion of asubway station .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Attached to a greenhouse is a building called a headhouse; a workroom, a bathroom, a storage room, and an office are some of the things you might find in a headhouse.
Flower Power Kaplan, Howard 2008
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On being called by Bujon, they immediately left their game to carry my things up to the "headhouse," -- a circular building attached to most Dyak villages, and serving as a lodging for strangers, the place for trade, the sleeping-room of the unmarried youths, and the general council-chamber.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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It is also of note that at the northern end of the shops that line the west side of the headhouse was Ed Bottone's Lautrec, an often over-looked forerunner of the Philadelphia restaurant renaissance.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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Today's Headhouse takes its name from theses Colonial origins and the headhouse building on the Pine Street Side along with the "shambles" -- the connected structures that run to Lombard Street with Colonial origins.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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As noted, the headhouse and shambles was originally known as New Market to distinguish it from the older High Street market.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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The headhouse was built in 1805 and housed a volunteer fire department.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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The headhouse was built in 1805 and housed a volunteer fire department.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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It is also of note that at the northern end of the shops that line the west side of the headhouse was Ed Bottone's Lautrec, an often over-looked forerunner of the Philadelphia restaurant renaissance.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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As noted, the headhouse and shambles was originally known as New Market to distinguish it from the older High Street market.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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Today's Headhouse takes its name from theses Colonial origins and the headhouse building on the Pine Street Side along with the "shambles" -- the connected structures that run to Lombard Street with Colonial origins.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse 2010
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