GLASSHOUSE

greenhouse, glasshouse

(noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

glasshouse (plural glasshouses)

A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial).

A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.

(British military slang)  A military prison.

Synonyms

• greenhouse (chiefly domestic)

Source: Wiktionary


Glass"house`, n.

Definition: A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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