glasshouse

[ glas-hous, glahs- ]

/ ˈglæsˌhaʊs, ˈglɑs- /

a glassworks.

Chiefly British. a green-house.

British Informal. a military prison.

Origin of glasshouse

First recorded in 1350–1400, glasshouse is from the Middle English word glas hous. See glass, house

"I was trying to find the Queen's Glasshouse Chapel, officer," said he.

The Regent |E. Arnold Bennett
The storeman lived alone in a cottage that had a glasshouse against one wall built by himself.

Bliss, and Other Stories |Katherine Mansfield
Daisy said it was a place in Glasshouse Street for which she had no very great affection.

Sinister Street, vol. 2 |Compton Mackenzie
A long-established legend that beads were manufactured at the Jamestown glasshouse is without archeological evidence.

Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology |Ivor Noel Hume

All the glasshouse was spanned and arched over with one beautiful vine.

Bliss, and Other Stories |Katherine Mansfield

glasshouse

/ (ˈɡlɑːsˌhaʊs) /

British a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions

obsolete, informal, mainly British a military detention centre

US another word for glassworks