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out⋅house

[out-hous]
–noun, plural -hous⋅es [-hou-ziz] .
1. an outbuilding with one or more seats and a pit serving as a toilet; privy.
2. any outbuilding.

Origin:
1525–35; out- + house
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out·house   (out'hous')   
n.  
  1. A small, enclosed structure having one or two holes in a seat built over a pit and serving as an outdoor toilet.

  2. An outbuilding, as on a farm.

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outhouse 
1533, "shed, outbuilding," from out + house (q.v.). Sense of "a privy" (principally Amer.Eng.) is first attested 1819.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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