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black house
†1. A prison; also a place of business where working-hours are long and wages are very small. Obs. slang.
1848Flash Dict. in Sinks of London laid Open 99/1 Black houses, prisons. 1861Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 224/2 The black houses, or linendrapers at the west end of London, were principally supplied from the east end.
2. Sc. Also black-house. (a) A turf house; (b) a house built of unmortared stone, found esp. in north-western Scotland and the Hebrides.
1824J. Macculloch Highlands & Western Isles I. 112 The genuine, pure black house is built entirely of turf; walls and roof: it is a ‘good black house’ when the roof is of thatch. 1870Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl. VII. 154 The native structure is a Black-house or Tigh-dubh. 1911W. C. Mackenzie in N. Munro Home Life of Highlanders 38 In some of the outlying districts..there are phases of life that have apparently remained unaltered since the Middle Ages. They are typified by the ‘black houses’, many of which are still to be found in the Long Island. 1931W. C. Mackenzie Sc. Place-Names viii, ‘Black-houses’ of the Outer Hebrides, i.e. the houses built of turf [as contrasted with] the ‘white’ or stone houses, by which they are rapidly being replaced. 1951Antiquity XXV. 200 The roof had doubtless been the normal blackhouse roof with no smoke-hole. |