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Building for plants; prison
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glasshouse
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Glasshouse , or the Glasshouse , was historically the term for a military prison in the British Army , although the expression is now seldom used within the military itself. The first military prisons were established in 1844. The term Glasshouse originated ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glasshouse \Glass"house`\, n. A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
Usage examples of glasshouse.
From these caverns leapt the motive force of a dispensary in Chemnitz, a glasshouse in Shropshire, a callbox in Billings, Montana.
She told him how the Construct Council was sure the moths were in Riverskin, hiding in the Glasshouse.
First there was a rending crack, then a long-drawn-out series of crystalline crashes like a million glasshouses being demolished.
Rooms had been added to the tops and backsides of buildings, styled like weird miniature effigies of the stepped pyramid in the centre of the Glasshouse.
You can bet your arse the Glasshouse wouldnt mean shit without New Crobuzon.