hothousen.
/ˈhɒthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈhɑtˌ(h)aʊs/ 1.
a. A bathhouse with hot baths, steam baths, etc.; = bagnio n. 1. Now historical and rare.In some instances it is difficult to distinguish between this sense and sense 1b, and often both senses are implied (cf. note in etymology).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > place for bathing > bath-house > hot baths or springs
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therm1549
thermae1600
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 4 His broþir..was with him and with his modir in an hothous whech þei clepe a stewe, þe day of his birth.
1511 Churche of yvell Men A iv Bordelles, tauernes, sellers, and hote houses dissolute, there as is commytted so many horryble synnes.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Annoyntyng A place nighe unto a hotte house, or stewsse wherin men be annoynted.
1560 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Life (rev. ed.) sig. Cvi The pacient must..sweate in bathes, or whote houses.
1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome iv. xxv, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1382 Those places where they built these baines and hote houses, they call Thermæ.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 15 The..sweate that was rubbed off the bodie in the hotehouses.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1972) VI. 40 My wife being busy in going..to a hot-house to bath herself.
1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan II. v. iv. 424 The bagnio, or bathing place..contains either a Froo, as they call it, a hot house to sweat in, or a Ciffroo, that is a warm bath, and sometimes both together.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 16 June 185 He could shiver in a hothouse.
1820 J. Mair Tyro's Dict. (ed. 10) 376 Sudatorium, a bagnio or hot house, to sweat in.
2007 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Apr. w25 We bathe in the hammam hothouses.
b. A brothel. Cf. bagnio n. 3, stew n.2 4. Now historical and rare.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
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stewc1384
stivec1386
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hothouse1556
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trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
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public house1640
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academy1650
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case1699
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house of ill reputea1726
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kip1766
Corinth1785
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flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
1556 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 104 The iij day of May dyd ryd in a care a-bowt London a woman that dwelt at Quen-heyffe at the hott howsse, for a bawde.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. 257 Hee cannot swagger it well in a Tauerne, nor dominere in a hot house.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 63 Now shee professes a hot-house; which, I thinke is a very ill house too. View more context for this quotation
1699 S. Garth Dispensary ii. 21 A Hot-house he prefers to Julia's Arms.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 69 While a battle rages in the streets outside the palace, Pasquale is locked up in his patrician hothouse, holding an orgy.
2. A heated chamber or building for drying something.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > making dry > drying by specific method > chamber or building
hothouse1555
hot flue1805
1555 R. Eden Briefe Descr. Moscouia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 259v Theyr corne and other grayne..doo seldome waxe rype on the ground by reason wherof they are sumtimes inforced to rype and dry them in theyr stooues and hotte houses.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xxi. 58 A furnace like unto the hotte houses of Germanye serving too drye the shyrtes and other linnen.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 207 The Hot-House where they set their Salt to dry.
?1720 Husbandman's Jewel 7 The 3d Year about the beginning, you may draw and dig the Plants, and dry them in a Hot-house, Killn or Stow, and a good Acre of Liquorice will yeild 90 Pound.
1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 187 The Barrows being fully drained, are removed into the Hot-House, behind the Saltern, to dry.
1776 B. Clermont tr. Professed Cook (ed. 3) 532 Put them upon a Baking-plate to dry a l'Etuvée, viz. an artificial Stove, or Hot-house, in which place all Sugar-paste and Sweet-meats ought to be kept.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1135/2 Hot-house. 1. (Pottery.) A room where strong heat completes the drying of green ware, previously to..firing in a kiln.
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Stoved Salt, boiled salt drawn out of the pans, put into wooden moulds, and afterwards taken into the stoves or hot-houses for the purpose of being thoroughly dried. All table salt is stoved salt.
1964 Amer. Speech 39 271 Hothouse, a drying room where heat is applied to fabric which has been dipped in a gum solution.
1996 Repository Canton OH (Nexis) 1 Jan. b1 That octet is pushed onto a conveyor belt that carries them to workers who stack them in specific patterns for the trip to the dreaded hothouse.
3.
a. A greenhouse kept artificially heated for the cultivation of plants from warmer climates, and of native flowers and fruits out of season.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > hothouse
stow1614
hothouse1629
stove1697
hot wall1739
moist stove1806
tan-stove1828
warm-house1843
stove-house1860
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xciiii. 376 The Indian flowring Reede... [It] doth not abide extremities of our winters..vnless it meete with a stoue or hot-house, such as are vsed in Germany.
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. 238 A large Hot-house, for the maintaining such tender Exotick Plants, as require a large Share of Warmth.
1749 Lady Luxborough Let. 29 Aug. in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 117 A Ménagerie; and as well as I love pine-apples, would prefer it to a hot-house.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. v. 182 The hot-houses yielded their early strawberries.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 96/1 He was wont to perambulate the garden and the hothouses, lantern in hand.
1936 E. Sitwell Victoria of Eng. xix. 226 Flowers from the Queen's hothouses at Osborne.
2003 A. Perry Christmas Journey (2004) 12 One by one gold-rimmed plates were removed..until there was nothing left but mounds of fresh grapes from the hothouse.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts. A place where something is kept or developed artificially; an atmosphere or environment conducive to prolific growth or development. Cf. hotbed n. 1b.
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1811 Ld. Byron Farewell Malta 46 Thou little military hothouse!
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iii. iv. 121 The technical system is a hot-house of mendacity.
1846 C. Dickens Let. 6 Dec. (1977) IV. 677 Doctor Blimber's establishment is a great hothouse for the young mind.
1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1864) 2nd Ser. x. 135 Men nurtured in the hothouse of religious advantages.
1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 78 St. Cuthbert's, Philbeach Gardens, Kensington, another Anglo-Catholic ‘hot-house’.
1990 Business Apr. 56/1 The Business Hot 100 is a ranking of the British companies which, in the hothouse of the late 1980's grew most spectacularly of all.
2001 R. Cellan-Jones Dot.bomb iii. 28 Corporate Development was a hothouse for new ideas to keep Dixons ahead of the game.
4. A separate heated hut used by North American Indians as a winter residence or for taking sweat baths. Now historical. Cf. sweat-house n. 1.
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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
1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. 189 This Hot-house is a kind of little Cell or Cave,..[and] into this frequently the men enter after they have exceedingly heated it...Here doe they sit..sweating together.
1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 35 I retird to Kanagatucko's hot-house. Note. This Hot-house is a little hut joined to the house, in which a fire is continually kept.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 367 Each..habitation has besides a little conical house, covered with dirt, which is called the winter or hot-house.
1851 A. J. Pickett Hist. Alabama I. ii. 140 The scalp was suspended from the hot-house, around which the women danced until they were tired.
1912 Amer. Anthropologist 14 323 A small mound of earth is frequently used nowadays to represent the old ‘hothouse’, and another is a kind of women's headquarters.
1924 Amer. Anthropologist 26 251 Circular hot-houses were used by all the Muskhogean tribes and by the Cherokee.
1993 K. E. Holland Braund Deerskins & Duffels (1996) i. i. 16 In most cases, the hot house was situated at the northwest corner of the square, with the door facing southeast.
5. Caribbean. A hospital for slaves. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary
maison dieu1354
fermery1377
leech-house1483
sick-house1491
hospital1549
infirmitorya1552
guest house1600
infirmatory1603
valetudinary1623
infirmary1625
nosocome1653
hôtel-Dieuc1660
hothouse1707
sanity-institution1799
butcher's shop1890
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. ciii One Prince, a lusty Negro, had been ill of the Yaws..and flux'd for it in one of the Chirurgeons Hot-Houses.
1788 H. Macneill Observ. Treatm. Negroes Jamaica 8 He [sc. a sick slave] is put into a house particularly appropriated to the purpose, (a lazaretto or hot-house, as it is generally called).
1790 W. Beckford Descriptive Acct. Jamaica II. 17 This building has a narrow piazza in front, at the end of which is a small apartment for the nurse or hot-house woman.
1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 153 Several of the negroes complained of sickness, and in consequence were sent to the hot-house.
1834 R. R. Madden Let. 4 Apr. in Twelvemonth's Residence W. Indies (1835) I. 154 The hot-house doctor is generally a negro disqualified by age or infirmity for labour in the field. He has charge of the medicines.
1873 W. J. Gardner Hist. Jamaica iii. iii. 180 Each estate was provided with a hospital, or, as it was more generally termed, hothouse.
1926 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 11 599 Slaves were prone to pretend sickness in order to get into the ‘hothouse’ or hospital to avoid work.
1989 D. Hall In Miserable Slavery (1999) vi. 134 Little Mimber was in the hothouse, soon to be sent to Paradise.
Compounds
C1. attributive.
a. In sense 3a.
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1789 J. Abercrombie (title) The Hot-House Gardener on the..Methods of forcing Early Grapes,..and other Choice Fruits, in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c.
1836 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 26 English hot-house flowers, growing wild.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 84 Hot-house grapes.
1930 W. Lewis Let. 30 July (1963) 190 Joyce is like an over-mellow hot-house pear.
2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 140/2 Israeli agronomists had..mastered the techniques of hothouse cultivation and drip-irrigation farming.
b. In sense 3b.
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1840 J. S. Mill Let. 3 Dec. (1910) I. 119 You will be interested in the modern German art;..it appears to me a feeble, hot-house product.
1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 156 A hothouse atmosphere of unnatural affection.
1959 F. O'Connor Let. 26 Apr. in Habit of Being (1979) 330 A kind of hot-house innocence which is of very little help to anyone who has to be thrown into the problems of the modern world.
1964 Eng. Stud. 45 50 Those delicate, hot-house feelings.
1984 L. Gordon Virginia Woolf v. 55 Half of a woman's faculties were subjected to hothouse development while the other half—her intellect and agency—were stunted with packs of ice.
c. Designating a school which encourages the intellectual development of children beyond that normally expected of their age group.
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1985 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 6/3 Specialist ‘hot house’ boarding schools for a single subject such as maths or languages.
1990 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. Mensa, the society for people with high IQs, is to open its first ‘hothouse’ school for Britain's most able children.
2007 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Jan. 12 Communism may have collapsed but these hothouse schools have bred a fierce determination to get ahead in the new Europe.
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hothouse plant n. a plant grown in a hothouse; (figurative) someone or something that is artificial, delicate, or fragile.
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1771 W. Malcolm (title) A catalogue of hot-house and green-house plants.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxi. 201 Mrs. Wititterly is of a very excitable nature, very delicate, very fragile; a hothouse plant.
1900 Course of Study Dec. 263/2 Art, as a thing by itself, is a sickly, enclosed hothouse plant.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 66/3 (advt.) Water Lilies are guaranteed to grow—why take risks with hothouse plants?
1999 Times of India (Nexis) 18 July So how does this hothouse plant manage to survive? On the passion of a handful.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hothousev.
/ˈhɒthaʊs/, U.S. /ˈhɑtˌ(h)aʊs/ transitive. To place or cultivate in a hothouse. Also figurative and in figurative contexts: to protect or develop artificially, esp. to provide intensive teaching to (a child); cf. hothouse n. 3b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > hothouse [verb (transitive)]
hothouse1829
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > grow in hothouse
stove1625
hothouse1829
1829 Lion 9 Jan. 53 Hot-housing the growth of grace in his soul, so as to get it ripe for glory.
1892 Standard 23 Dec. 2/2 Every trivial incident..had been hot-housed, gloated over..and treated as a dainty dish.
1898 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 464 No fretful orchid hot-housed from the dew, But hale and hardy as the highland heather.
1926 Jrnl. Philos. 23 655 He is too reverent of whatever facts he has chanced to find to turn from them to the contemplation of beauty hothoused from the winds and snows.
1938 Geogr. Rev. 28 296 On cold days the groves are literally hothoused by mats spread over the lattice-work.
1960 A. S. Neill Summerhill i. 64 The evils of civilization are due to the fact that no child has ever had enough play. To put it differently, every child has been hothoused into an adult long before he has reached adulthood.
1992 Independent 20 Jan. 19/4 Americans, naturally, hire private teachers to hot-house their babies straight on to the black runs, so you never actually see infant Americans learning to ski.
2007 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 4 Mar. 40 A group of grammar-school boys are hot-housed for Oxbridge, and the journey is, by turns, comical, tender and tinged with sadness.
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