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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gashouse

1880 as a power-generating station, from gas (n.) + house (n.). By 1926, emblematic of a run-down district of a U.S. city, a typical abode of gangsters.

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gashouse

n. gasworks

Usage examples of "gashouse".

Louisiana industry was gossamer tidbits of apocryphal tales spun into the mainstream of the mega-millions that those Gashouses of refineries made.