Meanings
adjective
- alternativeAlternative spelling of hothouse.
I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house
1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
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