Definition of "hot-house" []

• Alternative spelling of hothouse. (adjective)

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• "II. i.66 (32,2) [she professes a hot-house] A _hot-house_ is an English name for a _bagnio_."
• "Perhaps it is because you are unused to consistent, natural women; because, more likely, you are only familiar with the hot-house breeds, -- pretty, helpless, well-rounded, stall-fatted little things, blissfully innocent and criminally ignorant."
• ""Newt is a bit of a hot-house flower in that way.""