harbourage
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"If you have food and water and harbourage, you have a perfect storm there for rat activity," she said.
From BBC • May 21, 2025
"A lot of it is to do with us, people leaving food behind. Remove the food and the harbourage and they won't be secure, they will go," she said.
From BBC • May 21, 2025
In a few moments the brief line was passed, and the islanders waiting about upon the beach saw the English vessel ride smoothly into harbourage under shadow of the huge castle rock.
From A Monk of Cruta by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
It is a consolation for my poverty," said he with the simplest dignity, "that I can therefore offer you a safer harbourage.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
We were heading out for the white suburb which is beneath the Bellver Castle, and what harbourage the fugitives could hope to find in that direction we couldn't for the life of us imagine.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
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