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ˈgarden-house
[f. garden n. + house.]
1. Any small building in a garden; a summer-house.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 212 This is the body That..did supply thee at thy garden-house In her Imagin'd person. 1678Dryden Limberham i. i, I was just coming down to the garden-house. 1727De Foe Secrets Invis. W. (1735) 251 As he was sitting alone in a Summer-House as we call it, or Garden-House, as they more properly call it there [Leipsick]. 1821Scott Kenilw. xx, Pointing to an old ruinous garden-house.
b. dial. and U.S. A privy.
1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Garden-house, a privy; an out-door closet.
2. A dwelling-house situated in a garden; a suburban residence.
1607Dekker & Webster Northward Ho ii. ii, Because..to be pent up in a narrow lodging here i' the city may offend her health, she shall lodge at a garden-house of mine in Moorfields. 1627in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 243 Sir Francis Barrington..is gone out of the Marshalsea to a garden-house in Southwark. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 74 Having an occasion to go over to the bank-side, in a Garden house. 1738Birch Life Milton in M.'s Wks. I. 20 He..took an handsome Garden House in Aldersgate-street. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 133 Interspersed with the garden-houses, or suburban retreats of the wealthy merchants.
†b. In the early 17th c. often used for a house kept for immoral purposes. Obs.
1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman Hater ii. i, This is no garden house, in my conscience, shee went forth with no dishonest intent. a1625Fletcher Love's Cure iii. i, Thou shalt be my Bawd..Thy old wife [shall]..weare a hood, Nay keepe my garden-house. |