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Glasshouse
//ˈɡlæshaʊs// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.
- 2 a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions wordnet
- 3 A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
"The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures."
- 4 A military prison. British, slang
Etymology
From Middle English glasehows, glashous, glashows; equivalent to glass + house.
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