1. (n.) 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. (n.) A bagnio, or bathing house.
3. (n.) A brothel; a bagnio.
4. (n.) A heated room for drying green ware.
Thesaurus Entries
babied, cloche, coddled, cold frame, conservatory, coolhouse, dainty, delicate, forcing bed, forcing house, forcing pit, fragile, frail, glasshouse, greenhouse, hotbed, lathhouse, nursery, orangery, pampered, pinery, seedbed, sensitive, sheltered, shielded, spoiled, summerhouse
