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English
Etymology
From Middle English cowhous, cowehous, equivalent to cow + house.
Noun
cowhouse (plural cowhouses)
- A house (barn or shed) for keeping cows.
- Synonyms: byre, cowbarn, cowshed
- Hypernyms: barn, house, outbuilding
- Coordinate terms: henhouse, hoghouse, horsebarn
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 138:A colony of Elves had taken up their abode under the floor of the cowhouse, or, it is more likely, were there before it was made a cowhouse.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 42:When he had churned some time he recollected that the cow, which they kept at home, hadn't been let out of the cow-house, and hadn't had a straw of hay or anything to drink, although it was late in the day.