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wartime houses

wartime houses is the plural of wartime house.

Meaning of wartime house

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

Questions about wartime houses

What is wartime houses the plural of?
Wartime houses is the plural of wartime house.

Words near wartime houses in the dictionary

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

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