harbourage

US harborage

noun

shelter or refuge, as for a ship, or a place providing shelter

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Examples from the Web for harbourage

Historical Examples

He had the charity to give me his guidance from the Sands, and a night's harbourage from the tempest.
Red Gauntlet
Sir Walter Scott
And then the flea said, “This night will we change our harbourage”; and so they did.
Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535
Eileen Edna Power
Originally he was, as his name implies, a god of harbourage.
The Aeneid of Virgil
Virgil
A mighty wind drove them far from their harbourage, so that their rudder was broken, and their sail torn from the mast.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
Marie de France
And the old birds that had sung in the spring sang now amid the same leaves, grown older too to give them harbourage.
The Return
Walter de la Mare

harbourage

US harborage

Examples from the Web for harbourage

Historical Examples

He had the charity to give me his guidance from the Sands, and a night's harbourage from the tempest.

And then the flea said, “This night will we change our harbourage”; and so they did.

Originally he was, as his name implies, a god of harbourage.

A mighty wind drove them far from their harbourage, so that their rudder was broken, and their sail torn from the mast.

And the old birds that had sung in the spring sang now amid the same leaves, grown older too to give them harbourage.