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harborage

American  
[hahr-ber-ij] / ˈhɑr bər ɪdʒ /

noun

  1. shelter for vessels, as that provided by a harbor.

  2. any shelter or lodging.

  3. a place of shelter.


Etymology

Origin of harborage

First recorded in 1560–70; harbor + -age

Example Sentences

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“Because of their construction, sponges provide harborage for any number and variety of microbiological organisms, many of which may be pathogenic,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s U.S.

From Washington Post Mar. 18, 2022

While rat infestations in car engines are not rare occurrences, researchers are attempting to determine whether they are increasing in areas where rats’ usual food and harborage sites have been disrupted by pandemic distancing efforts.

From New York Times Apr. 30, 2020

Here were no coves or harborage or shelter, only steep headlands, rockfallen reefs and crags.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Here, at any rate, the despised pair could find safe harborage.

From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

The unsuspicious would have been forced to suppose, from the forlorn manner in which Miss Jessie cast her eyes around, that she regretted the absence of any convenient hostelry for the stranger's harborage.

From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

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