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outhouse

[out-hous] / ˈaʊtˌhaʊs /


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We used candles, pumped water and had an outhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Following his arrest in May 2024, police found £75,000 in a safe hidden in a brick outhouse in the rear garden of his home in Crankwood Road.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

He threw himself into the project, spending a week installing a 2,600-gallon water tank, an outhouse and a plywood shack to sleep in with stud walls and a steel door.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

Slauson appeared in The Seattle Times in 2006 after a landslide diverted the river through his front yard, taking his driveway, outhouse and shed with it.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2024

The pigsty stank, and so did the outhouse, the refuse pit, and the field workers plowing in the sun.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron




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