A building or storage space designed to keep its interior cool, often used for storing food, ice, or other perishable goods before mechanical refrigeration.
Compound of 'cool' (low in temperature) and 'house' (building). This term was common in the 18th-19th centuries before electric refrigeration made it obsolete.
Coolhouses were architectural marvels—built with thick walls, often partially underground, and packed with sawdust or straw for insulation, some could preserve ice from winter through the summer heat.
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