glasshouse
IPA: gɫˈæshaʊs
noun
- A greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.
- A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
- (Britain military slang) A military prison.
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Examples of "glasshouse" in Sentences
- This is the large walk through glasshouse.
- It has the largest tomato growing glasshouse in the UK.
- The building ceased to be used as a glasshouse after 1780/81.
- I added a prod so I am certainly in the glasshouse on this one.
- In the context of the novel, glasshouse refers to a military prison.
- Flowering high in the glasshouse is the yellow flowered Allamanda cathartica.
- The original glasshouse was built in the early 1600s by settlers from Europe.
- The site is now part of the Glasshouse shopping complex, home to the Tea Centre.
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