gig-house

English

Noun

gig-house (plural gig-houses)

1. Alternative form of gighouse
   • 1838, John Claudius Loudon, The suburban gardener, and villa companion, page 82:

     The entrance to the loft ought to be by a ladder outside, or by stairs from the gig-house.

   • 2012, Ronald Blythe, A Treasonable Growth:

     Because whe had put off telling her mother that they intended to take it — a slight weariness at having to explain her flimsiest actions year in and year out had produced its own little pall of dishonesty (she found actual lying forced up an almost physical nausea inside her, so she now shied away from that and relied entirely on silence with its mixed bag of answers), they eased the vehicle from the gig-house with an apprehensive casualness.