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- noun Plural form of
cowhouse .
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Examples
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Built round the foldyard are the stables for the cart-horses, the cowhouses, and the great barn.
Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke
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Another great advantage is that it can be moulded to any shape and thickness, and is therefore most useful for barns, cowhouses, and feeding stalls.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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For instance, a diminution of oxygen and an increase of carbonic acid is decidedly apparent in crowded rooms, theaters, cowhouses, and stables.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various
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It proved to be a collection of ramshackle dwellings, as little habitable as English cowhouses; of stores, where thieving Greeks sold groceries to the soldiers; and of taverns, whose vines hung heavily clustered over porch and window.
Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931
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They were to be found in every cellar; in every attic; in larders and cowhouses and barns; in breweries and flour-mills; in churches and castles; in every man-constructed building.
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I will look after everything, from their cowhouses to their irrigation-channels.
Chapter XI 1917
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Augeas, King of Elis, had immense herds, and kept his stables and cowhouses in a frightful state of filth, and Eurystheus, hoping either to disgust Hercules or kill him by the unwholesomeness of the work, sent him to clean them.
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The monte has many houses, dairies, and cowhouses, — being almost the paese, or village, in miniature.
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It was a period of great depression, and as his farms fell vacant he took them into his own hands, increased his stock and built model cowhouses, and came at last to be known throughout his own country, and eventually everywhere, as one of the biggest cattle-breeders in England.
Afoot in England 1881
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He ordered twenty large sheds to be constructed, and arranged in a square like a series of large cowhouses, so that a great open space was left in the middle, to which led one single large gate.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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