Used to describe- a raised cabin area on a boat, like this lovely detailed dog house on THUNDERHEAD(beautiful port trim detail).

Also a gabled roof dormer on a house(like the one just above, or the one I was building, below, also ulitimately well detailed, if I do say so).

Then there is the phrase, "in the dog house", a bad place for a person to be.

And of course(originally?), a kennel for a dog.

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