A traditional single-storeyed Scottish house built of turf or mortarless stone, typically lacking a chimney and roofed with turf or thatch.
（现主要见于苏格兰外赫布里底群岛的）草皮屋，茅草屋
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A month later she writes: ‘Had a lively time fighting the boys, dashing round the black houses etc after blacking Bill's face with burnt corks.’
They passed quiet, black houses with thatched roofs.
Turn left, walk on past the Factor's House to the black houses just before the first re-roofed cottage, then turn right, following the course of the Dry Burn to the Head Dyke.
The central one held a small black house whose steeply peaked roof was edged in white.
She had tried the island and his black house many times, never having luck enough to see her husband.