chicken housen.
/ˈtʃɪk(ᵻ)n haʊs/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪkən ˌhaʊs/ A shed or building in which chickens are kept; a chicken coop. Cf. henhouse n. 1.
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1750 tr. R.-A. F. de Réaumur Art of hatching Domestick Fowls viii. 363 It is a prospect really amusing, to see forty or fifty chickens scattered here and there, run to the plate full of worms, put into their chicken-house [Fr. poussinière].
1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Jan. 288/1 They are shut up in the chicken-house.
1899 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 27 Sept. 5/4 The chickenhouses of three residents..were raided..and 101 chickens stolen.
1918 Daily Mail 7 Dec. 4/4 Go to your chicken-house on a winter morning when a dust of snow lies on the ground—and the marks of pads [of foxes] are thick as footsteps on a muddy pavement!
2015 Sunday Express (Nexis) 2 Aug. (S Mag.) 79 I made a hasty retreat to lock up the ducks and chickens..when I noticed a commotion in the chicken house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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