cowshed
noun
cow·shed ˈkau̇-ˌshed 
: a shed for the housing of cows
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Surrounded by lush green lawn, the whitewashed stone building is an erstwhile cowshed located on the five-acre property, a former farm, where her family has lived since Rogge was 6. 
Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 4 May 2020 The tradition says that any woman who has her period must be banished outside, to a cowshed or makeshift bunker, no matter how cold or dangerous. BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2019 My father built our country home inside the farm’s original cowshed. Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 12 Dec. 2017 New Delhi (CNN)A teenage girl in Nepal has died after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a cowshed during a menstruation ritual that sees young women separated from their families and made to sleep alone. Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 10 July 2017 During his nine months in the cowshed, Mr. Ji was forced to haul baskets of coal, weed a garden and hand-plow fields of rice near the campus. Jane Perlez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 4 May 2020 The tradition says that any woman who has her period must be banished outside, to a cowshed or makeshift bunker, no matter how cold or dangerous. BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2019 My father built our country home inside the farm’s original cowshed. Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 12 Dec. 2017 New Delhi (CNN)A teenage girl in Nepal has died after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a cowshed during a menstruation ritual that sees young women separated from their families and made to sleep alone. Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 10 July 2017 During his nine months in the cowshed, Mr. Ji was forced to haul baskets of coal, weed a garden and hand-plow fields of rice near the campus. Jane Perlez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016 Word History
First Known Use
1763, in the meaning defined above
- for dear life
- for decoration
- for example
- for fair
- for fear of
- for free
- for future reference
- for good
- for good and all
- for good and for ill
- for good behavior
- for good measure
- for goodness' sake
- for heaven's sake
- for hire
- for instance
- for it
- for keeps
- for kicks
- for lack of
- for laughs
- for life
- for long
- for love nor money
- for love or money