houss
English
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edithouss (plural housses)
- (obsolete) A covering, usually of textile (or mail) and attached to a saddle; a saddlecloth.
- 1717, John Dryden, “Book XII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- And where man ended, the continued vest,
Spread on his back, the houss and trappings of a beast.
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edithouss
Further reading
edit- “houss”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “houss”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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