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Housing

noun

Structures collectively in which people are housed. Synonyms: living accommodations, lodging.

A protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component.

Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse. Synonyms: caparison, trapping.

House

verb

(past & past part. housed; pres. part. housing)

Contain or cover.

Provide housing for. Synonyms: domiciliate, put up.

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"Housing" Quotes from Famous Books

... perfectly independent, at least in theory, though in practice he will often scarcely be able to avoid putting up at the conventos in the more isolated parts of the country. In these the priest, perhaps the only white man for miles around, is with difficulty persuaded to miss the opportunity of housing such a rare guest, to whom he is only too anxious to give up the best bedroom in his dwelling, and to offer everything that his kitchen and cellar can afford. Everything is placed before the guest in such a spirit of sincere and undisguised friendliness, ...

— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... will be represented Fortitude, in like manner in her place with her pillar in her hand, robed in white, to signify ... And all crowned; and Prudence with 3 eyes. The housing of the horse should be of plain cloth of gold closely sprinkled with peacock's eyes, and this holds good for all the housings of the horse, and the man's dress. And the man's crest and his neck-chain are of peacock's ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... neighbours as they will that they do to them. Another is that they do, so far as they can, the seven works of mercy. The which are: to feed the hungry: to give the thirsty a drink; to clothe the naked: to harbour them that have no housing: to visit the sick, to comfort them that are in prison; to ...

— The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises • Richard Rolle of Hampole

... whoever lives up here awhile will have no such bad housing. And if we but get the place victualled this night, it will be ready for Brother Emmanuel whensoever he may ...

— The Secret Chamber at Chad • Evelyn Everett-Green

... engineer, Kessler; the Chief Inspector of the Egyptian Survey Department, Humphreys; Col. Goldsmith was to report on the land; and Dr. Soskin was to study agricultural possibilities. Oscar Marmorek was to investigate building and housing problems and act as General Secretary. Dr. Hillel Jaffe of the Jaffe Hospital was to deal with the ...

— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl

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