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narrow houses

narrow houses is the plural of narrow house.

Meaning of narrow house

Noun

narrow house (plural narrow houses)

  1. (poetic) The grave.
    • Yet if some voice that man could trust / Should murmur from the narrow house: / The cheeks drop in; the body bows; / Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54

Questions about narrow houses

What is narrow houses the plural of?
Narrow houses is the plural of narrow house.

Words near narrow houses in the dictionary

  1. narrow escape
  2. narrow escapes
  3. narrow gauge
  4. narrow gauges
  5. narrow house
  6. narrow houses
  7. narrow minded
  8. narrow mindedness
  9. narrow mindednesses
  10. narrow road
  11. Narrow SCSI

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