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summerhouse

[suhm-er-haus] / ˈsʌm ərˌhaʊs /
NOUN
bower
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She wore Poiret gowns, opened galleries, lent Djuna Barnes the summerhouse where she wrote “Nightwood.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2019

“When I first got married, my wife wanted a summerhouse and I wanted a Swan—I bought the Swan first,” says Ferragamo, who visits the yard every two or three months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2015

Introduced as an "entertaining guest" by a mutual friend, he had succeeded in charming Mrs Taylor, who put the family up in a summerhouse in their garden in the grounds of Magdalen College.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014

The space, a considerable rarity in central Amsterdam, includes water features and a charming summerhouse.

From Time ● Aug. 11, 2011

Dad stared over the back lawn at the icicles on the summerhouse.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Nothing but summerhouses on a large scale are the South California barns.

From Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

For the gardens, sometimes called "hortyards," there were summerhouses, greenhouses, and arbors.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

The grottoes of the superior garden are here replaced by light ranges of arched summerhouses, designed in stucco, and occasionally adorned in their interior with fresco paintings of considerable brightness and beauty.

From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by John Ruskin

In 1621, and in 1624, he repeated his visit, when he built many summerhouses and palaces at Atchabull, Shalimar, &c., and in A.D.

From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by William Henry Knight

Passing again to the front of the house, Lecour saw the mob angrily tearing up garden benches and summerhouses for the same purpose.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall




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