HOTHOUSE

hothouse. Hothouse, n. a place to sweet and cup in, brothel, a house kept warm for plants

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Hot″house′ (?), n. 1. 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
2. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak.
3. 3. A brothel; a bagnio. B. Jonson.
4. 4. (Pottery) A heated room for drying green ware.