learning cottage
n.— «“The big joke around here is we call them ‘learning cottages,’” said Joines, who taught in the same trailer last year, her first in the system.» —“Trailers still needed despite new school” by Mark Schultz Chapel Hill Herald (Durham, N.C.) July 10, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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