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wartime house

wartime house noun: any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.

Noun

wartime house (plural wartime houses)

  1. (Canada) Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.
    • Using funds from the sale of their wartime house in Montreal, they purchased a handsome old log house on seven acres of white sand beach in the then still-active fishing community of Port Joli.1997, Marion Kelsey, Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, →ISBN, page xvi
    • On average, a four-room wartime house cost $2,700, and a six-room $3,400. The homes were a hot commodity.2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, →ISBN, page 150

Examples of wartime house in a sentence

  • The house that inspired this prayer is a small wartime house in a working-class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta.2005, Gregory A. Scofield, Singing Home the Bones, →ISBN, page 109:
  • Originally, a tiny wartime house sat on the corner lot facing on Dunsmure St.2008 December 20, Tracy Hanes, “Christmas comes early for Hamilton family”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 11 Jun 2014:
  • If you were driving from Saskatoon to Vanscoy early this morning, you may have seen a wartime house from Spadina Crescent rolling down the highway.2014 June 5, Alyssa McMurtry, “Out with the old, in with the new”, in The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Canada, retrieved 11 Jun 2014:

Forms of wartime house

pluralwartime houses

Questions about wartime house

What does wartime house mean?
Wartime house means any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.
How do you use wartime house in a sentence?
The house that inspired this prayer is a small wartime house in a working-class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta.
What part of speech is wartime house?
Wartime house is a noun.
What is the plural of wartime house?
The plural of wartime house is wartime houses.

Words near wartime house in the dictionary

  1. wartiest
  2. wartily
  3. wartime
  4. wartime footing
  5. wartime footings
  6. wartime house
  7. wartime houses
  8. wartimes
  9. wartiness
  10. wartish
  11. wartless

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