garden house

plural garden houses

1. A summerhouse, shed, or similar garden structure.

   this is no garden-house

   1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i

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   "So he did: it is in the dairy. Oh yes, and I know where some sulphur is. It is in the gardenhouse, where the tools are, in the orchard; it's what they use to smother the bees with—"

   1882, Richard Jefferies, Bevis: the Story of a Boy

2. Southern USUSarchaicA privy.
3. IndiahistoricalAn Anglo-Indian suburban villa.

   When Dalim became reanimated at night he ate whatever food he liked, for of such there was a plentiful stock in the garden-house, walked about on the premises, and meditated on the singularity of his lot.

   1912, Lal Behari Dey, Folk-tales of Bengal, Life's Secret