Meaning of housewindow | Babel Free

Definitions

The window of a house.

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Examples

“Neat housewindows faced the shuttling sea, to watch⟳ for Beauty in Necessity.”

“Coming down the steep and angled path behind the tall frame houses he thought he heard a voice. He tilted back his head to see⟳. Half out from a housewindow high up the laddered face⟳ of sootcaulked clapboards hung some creature.”

“And Suttree next notices “beyond in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant and forever in some domestic vagary” with an awareness of the velocity of his own⟳ passing: “Rapid his progress⟳ who petrifies these innocents into stony history” (178).”

“They had, thought Fanny, "a desolate, untidy, untended look⟳; the gates broken, the fences carelessly put⟳ up, or ill-repaired; the farming utensils skittishly scattered about a littered yard . . . ; housewindows broken, and stuffed with paper or clothes."”

“Less creative consumers, for example, may view⟳ a product such as Windex as useful only for cleaning housewindows; […]”

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