fern house

English

Noun

fern house (plural fern houses)

A type of greenhouse or shadehouse for growing ferns.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 62:
  In the seclusion of the latticed fern house, now that dusk had fallen, he lit his pipe[.]

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