summerhouse
IPA: sˈʌmɝhaʊs
noun
- A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.
- An outbuilding in a garden where the owners can relax in warm weather.
summer house
IPA: sˈʌmɝhˈaʊs
noun
- Alternative spelling of summerhouse [A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.]
summer-house
IPA: sˈʌmɝhaʊs
noun
- Alternative spelling of summerhouse [A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.]
Examples of "summerhouse" in Sentences
- Above it was an old summerhouse.
- They met at a summerhouse in the garden.
- Visitors can also rent a traditional Danish summerhouse.
- That's a killer for Brown. 500 quid repainting a 'summerhouse'.
- A wooden summerhouse was built at the lower end of the sandwalk.
- This year we have installed a so-called "summerhouse" in the garden.
- Brian now lives in Peterborough and has his own summerhouse business.
- He built a summerhouse on the banks of the lake, called Moytura House.
- In the Garden there is a summerhouse, a helicopter pad, and a tennis court.
- Sir Francis Burdett used the caves as a summerhouse and held picnics there.
- Lot of nice designs and a former residence of Arne Jacobssen and his summerhouse is a part of the exhibition.
- Mr Brown claimed more than £500 to redecorate a "summerhouse" - a building in the grounds of his Scottish home he uses as an office.
- The summerhouse was a quaint stockade of dark madrono boughs thatched with red-wood bark, strongly suggestive of deeper woodland shadow.
- The summerhouse was an octagon, only big enough inside for two people, and its latticework walls had been recently painted a greenish blue.
- Inside—or, rather, outside—the summerhouse was the kind of place Rebecca would find enchanting, with its burbling fountain, decorative brickwork, and stone chairs protected from the elements by shelflike orange tile roofs.
Examples of "summer-house" in Sentences
- At the far end is an old, tumble-down summer-house.
- "There is an exit through a summer-house at the far end."
- The palace was a city in itself, and we were lodged in a sort of summer-house that stood apart.
- I must conceal our packages in the summer-house, and tomorrow night, when the frenzy was at its customary height, we'd foregather at midnight by the back gate and be off.
- In particular, his reflections on completing the twenty-year project are poignant: It was on the night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden.
- It was a slow night in the gaming-room, but all hands to the pumps in the bedrooms by the sound of it; at a few minutes to twelve I got up and sauntered through the grounds to the summer-house, and for some reason my heart was beating fifty to the dozen.
- There was a little summer-house hidden deep in the pines near the back gate, and when occasion offered she and I would repair to it for field exercises; since I was preparing to bid Susie adieu I didn't heed the risk, but Cleonie's eagerness astonished me.
- I picked up my gear from the summer-house when he'd gone, and went quickly down through the crowded Plaza to the livery stable, where I slung my few traps over the mule, stowed the heavy purse of eagles in my money-belt, and rode out on the Albuquerque trail.
- Next day I bought a very pretty Arab gelding for myself, and a mule for Cleonie, left them in a livery stable south of the Plaza, and busied myself for the rest of the day with the final arrangements; by late afternoon I had our packages stowed in the summer-house, along with my rifle and six-shooter.
- I discovered why one afternoon when everyone else was at siesta, and I was sitting meditating in the dim, stuffy little summer-house with Cleonie astride my lap going like a drunk jockey and humming "II etait une bergere"; when she'd panted her soul out, and I'd got a cheroot going, she suddenly says: