Meanings
nounchicken house (plural chicken houses)
plural chicken houses
- alternativeAlternative form of chickenhouse.
One [old passenger coach], still used as a summer house, has been stripped of its wheels and repainted fairly recently in bright green, while the other, still in begrimed olive-green, has descended to the level of a chicken house.
1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136
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