harbourage
US harborage
- shelter or refuge, as for a ship, or a place providing shelter
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Historical Examples of harbourage
He had the charity to give me his guidance from the Sands, and a night's harbourage from the tempest.
Red GauntletSir Walter Scott
And then the flea said, “This night will we change our harbourage”; and so they did.
Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535Eileen Edna Power
Originally he was, as his name implies, a god of harbourage.
The Aeneid of VirgilVirgil
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 FranceMarie 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 ReturnWalter de la Mare