houseback
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Etymology edit
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houseback (plural housebacks)
- The rear of a house.
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, Genoa and The Mediterranean:
- Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit / On housebacks pink, green, ochreous […]
- 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke:
- 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 […]