houseback

noun

houseback

noun

Etymology From house + back.

1

The rear of a house.

  • Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit / On housebacks pink, green, ochreous […]1901, Thomas Hardy, Genoa and The Mediterranean:
  • The light on the policeman's lantern glared over the ghastly scene—along the double row of miserable housebacks, which lined the sides of the open tidal ditch […]1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke:

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