fern house

English

Noun

fern house (plural fern houses)

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