Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house or building in which cows are kept or stabled.
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Examples
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She then undid the gates of the tower, and made towards the byre, or cow-house, which stood in one corner of the courtyard.
The Monastery 2008
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So saying, she locked and double-locked both the inward and outward door of the tower, proceeded to the cow-house, turned out the cattle, and, giving the knight his own horse to lead, drove them before her out at the court-yard gate, intending to return for her own palfrey.
The Monastery 2008
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Roland saw fragments of Gothic pillars richly carved, occupying the place of door-posts to the meanest huts; and here and there a mutilated statue, inverted or laid on its side, made the door-post, or threshold, of a wretched cow-house.
The Abbot 2008
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It was a very homely place, in a village of one narrow zigzag street, among mountains, and you went in at the main door through the cow-house, and among the mules and the dogs and the fowls, before ascending a great bare staircase to the rooms; which were all of unpainted wood, without plastering or papering, — like rough packing-cases.
The Holly-Tree 2007
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In the cow-house which they examined, there was one animal which
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The man had never spoken a word for ten years, and had compelled himself to draw six breaths only, every minute, in the close atmosphere of a cow-house, adhering all the time to a regimen of exceedingly light diet.
The Magic Skin 2007
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It was a very homely place, in a village of one narrow zigzag street, among mountains, and you went in at the main door through the cow-house, and among the mules and the dogs and the fowls, before ascending a great bare staircase to the rooms; which were all of unpainted wood, without plastering or papering, — like rough packing-cases.
The Holly-Tree 2007
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It is now a cow-house, and has three cows in it, so that we get new milk by the bucketful.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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It was therefore resolved that they should return to Sky, which they did, and landed in Strath, where they reposed in a cow-house belonging to Mr Niccolson of Scorbreck.
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Well, he agreed to hire me; and what do you think he gave me? — six sous a day! and let me sleep in the cow-house besides: you may fancy how happy
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