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Definition of Pothouses
1. pothouse [n] - See also: pothouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pothouses
Literary usage of Pothouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek Life and Thought: From the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest by John Pentland Mahaffy (1887)
"... pothouses, so that a general who was put to great straits to make them man
the walls had these establishments set up close inside- the fortifications.2 ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1878)
"He was a favorite with the keepers of pothouses, and had enlisted a strong body
of porters and chairmen. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"Another source of anxiety to the curé were the cabarets or pothouses, which, as H.
Monnin remarks, are " la plaie de nos compagnes, et le désespoir des ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"Yet though from the earliest times up to the great Cremona period, the small viol
was associated almost exclusively with routs, pothouses, or at best ..."
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