Definition of "winter-house" [winter-house]

• A house used especially in winter. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "As he was fond of showing his winter-house, we may go back just seventeen hundred and eighty years and introduce you as his friend Gallus."
• "Similarly, the ninth month fell in the winter: for it was as he "sat in the winter-house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him" that king Jehoiakim took the prophecy of Jeremiah and "cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth.""
• "No doubt the lotus and the acanthus from the Nile grew in that winter-house, and perhaps Jehoiakim attempted -- the most difficult thing in the world the cultivation of the wild flowers from"