fowl-house

See also: fowlhouse

English

Alternative forms

• fowlhouse
• fowl house

Noun

fowl-house (plural fowl-houses)

1. A building where fowl are kept.
   • 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 247:

     Also I got some timber, and he built me a fowl-house far better than I could have done it myself.