grass housen.
/ˈɡrɑːs haʊs/, /ˈɡras haʊs/, U.S. /ˈɡræs ˌhaʊs/ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people
grass house1557
woman-house1566
fishing-house1676
family house1727
henhouse1785
women-house1792
bachelor('s) hall1841
bachelor-apartment1857
garçonnière1927
bachelor1968
bachelorette1973
pit house1974
squat1975
1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 102 To every grisse house within the parishe which hath no corne growing, one busshell of rye.
1607 in J. Stuart Sel. Rec. Kirk Aberdeen (1846) 199 Mony servandis and utheris that hes houssis, castis thame selffis louss fra seruice, and gives up thair cottage and gress houssis.
1699 in W. Cramond Church of Alves (1900) xxiv The heritors to be desyred to..discharge their tenants from setting grass houses (as they are called) to strangers come out of the Highlands.
1722 in H. Hamilton Select. Monymusk Papers (1945) 9 The Grasse House possest by Jas. Anguse with the Byre.
1887 Dundee Courier & Argus 18 May The houses had originally been built for the accommodation of grasshouse men in connection with Knowhead farm.
2. A house of which the roof and sides are made of bundles or mats of dried grass; = grass hut n. at grass n.1 Compounds 5.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of
lonquhardc1480
hothouse1643
ajoupa1666
penthouse1683
pandal?1692
bark-hut1744
log-tent1748
log cabin1770
bush-hut1775
log-hut1778
yurt1780
isba1784
beach hut1806
whare1807
bough-house1811
pondok1815
grass hut1818
hartebeest house1818
leaf hut1818
gunyah1820
grass house1823
slab-and-bark hut1826
slab-and-shingle hut1826
slab whare1826
rondavel1829
bush-house1835
skerm1835
jacal1838
toldo1839
log-shanty1847
wurley1847
maloca1853
palm hut1853
whare1853
hutmenta1857
bush-shanty1857
benab1860
pondokkie1862
bothan1863
lanaia1869
hogan1872
tenta1873
beehive-hut1884
leaf shelter1886
Oklahoma1889
goondie1890
cabana1898
troolie hut1899
tukul1901
fale1902
banda1908
kya1909
hut1913
obi1913
Nissen hut1917
Nissen1919
basha1921
tourist cabin1928
bunkie1935
wanigan1937
Quonset hut1942
chickee1943
iron lung1943
Quonset1943
1823 W. Richards Let. 1 Sept. in Relig. Intelligencer (New-Haven, Conn.) (1824) 10 July 83/2 The store-house is covered with mud to defend it from fire, as the grass houses are exceedingly exposed.
1892 J. Kennedy Mem. M. S. Kennedy v. 57 There was a grass-house belonging to a banya half a mile in another direction.
1949 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 62 257 He built himself a small grass house, went to the mountains for greenery, and erected his own altar.
2017 J. Schulz Hawaiian by Birth 77 (caption) Hawaiian children in front of a grass house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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