Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HOT'HOUSE
HOT'HOUSE, n.
- A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
- A bagnio, or place to sweat and cup in. Shak.
- A brothel. B. Jonson.
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