A shelter or coop designed for housing ducks, especially ornamental or domestic ducks on a farm or estate.
Compound of 'duck' and 'house.' This term has been in use since at least the 1700s when duck-keeping was common among European nobility and farmers.
The most famous 'duckhouse' might be the one in Alexander Pope's garden in 18th-century England—he designed an elaborate shelter showing how even utilitarian structures reflected aristocratic taste and attention to detail.
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