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houseback en · NOUN

Etymology

From house + back.

Meanings

1. The rear of a house.
   • Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit / On housebacks pink, green, ochreous […] 1901, Thomas Hardy, Genoa and The Mediterranean:
   • The light on the policeman's lantern glared over the ghastly scene—along the double row of miserable housebacks, which lined the sides of the open tidal ditch […] 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke:

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