forcing house

British  

noun

1. a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened

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Example Sentences

Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round.

From Time Magazine Archive

The average club perhaps is pre-eminently its forcing house, for there you shall find the growth both multifold and luxuriant.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

To walk is difficult in a damp steamy temperature hotter during daylight than the hottest forcing house in Kew.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

Geraldine had not exaggerated when she called Miss Blackburne's school a forcing house for the marriage market.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah

If, however, Kvatopil survives the end of the war, a brave and ambitious officer like him will undoubtedly have mounted higher on the ladder of promotion—the battle-field is the forcing house of advancement!

From Eyes Like the Sea by Jókai, Mór