houseback

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English

Etymology

From house +‎ back.

Noun

houseback (plural housebacks)

  1. 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 []

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