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/sˈəmər haʊs/ Listen

Summer house

noun

A country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer.

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"Summer house" Quotes from Famous Books

... he crossed the river road and sat down upon a stone wall. The afternoon was far spent and the sun blazing red. Lane wiped his moist face and fanned himself with his hat. Behind him the shade of a wooded garden or park looked inviting. Back in the foliage he espied the vine-covered roof of an old summer house. ...

— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey

... rather coarse fibre who had indifferently indulged tastes that he saw no reason to restrain. But he was changing: when he carried Isabel across the sunlit grass plot, her beautiful grave childish head lying warm on his shoulder, he had travelled far from the Hyde of the summer house at Bingley. ...

— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... Martin brought over his bride she could almost fancy that she was still at home near Amsterdam. Ever since, she had once a year sailed over in her husband's ship, and spent a few weeks with her kinsfolk. When at home from sea the great summer house was a general rendezvous of William Martin's friends in Rotherhithe, all skippers like himself, some still on active service, others, who had retired on their savings; not all, however, were fortunate enough to have houses on the river bank; and the summer house was therefore useful not ...

— By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic • G.A. Henty

Words linked to "Summer house" : country house