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summerhouse
[ suhm-er-hous ]
noun
- a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
summerhouse
/ ˈsʌməˌhaʊs /
noun
- a small building in a garden or park, used for shade or recreation in the summer
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Word History and Origins
Origin of summerhouse1
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Example Sentences
The spot to which my companion led me was a ruined summerhouse, not a stone's throw from the outer garden hedge.
Greatly allarmed, they turned back, and told my grandmother that a strange man was lying in the summerhouse.
She was in the summerhouse up the garden with her treasures spread out before her.
I found the captain sitting in the summerhouse alone, without the usual solace of his tobacco and his October.
They ran into a wooden summerhouse, painted cunningly after the Chinese fashion, shut themselves in, and drew their swords.
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