icehouse

noun

ice·​house ˈīs-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce icehouse (audio)
ˈī-ˌsau̇s
: a building in which ice is made or stored

Examples of icehouse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the 1970s, Mr. Whitman began a close association with the Dia Art Foundation, which bought a former brick icehouse on West 19th Street in Manhattan to devote to long-term installations and presentations of his work. Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024 Nearly every hospital in the South built a commercial-sized icehouse on its grounds. Amy Brady, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2023 Originally opened in 1851 as an icehouse that doubled as a morgue, this old-school pub has attracted the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Jimmy Buffett, and, of course, the legendary Captain Tony himself. 19 of 26 Catch a Show Key West is all about great entertainment. Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2023 The planet’s climate is well established to oscillate between two steady states: the icehouse (when, at a minimum, both poles whiten) and the steamier greenhouse phase, glacier-free. Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023 Noise complaints drove the Kitchen, an experimental art and performance venue, from SoHo to a former icehouse in West Chelsea in 1985. Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023 The icehouse held sixty thousand tons. David Owen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2022 So did icehouse,. Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020 The warm greenhouse climate became dramatically colder, creating an icehouse at the poles that has continued to the present day. Anamaria Silic, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1666, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of icehouse was in 1666

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“Icehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/icehouse. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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icehouse

noun
ice·​house ˈīs-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce icehouse (audio)
: a building in which ice is made or stored
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