Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word havre.

Examples

  • Mais il existe un havre où l'on peut toujours savourer une relation authentique: le coin du feu chez un ami auprès duquel on peut se défaire de ses petites vanités et trouver chaleur et compréhension.

    Jules 2009

  • Mais il existe un havre où l'on peut toujours savourer une relation authentique: le coin du feu chez un ami auprès duquel on peut se défaire de ses petites vanités et trouver chaleur et compréhension.

    Jules 2009

  • Does anyone actualy havre videos of bear fighting and animals being hunted?

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Big centipede vs. mouse. 2006

  • ENFIN on passe! la on avance lentement mais surement vers mon havre de paix la ou je vais pouvoir laisser libre court a ma fatigue LA VOITURE!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • Deux jours apr鑣 mon arriv閑 � P閞a je traversai le havre pour aller � Constantinople et visiter cette ville.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Les plus grosses caraques peuvent venir mouiller sous ses murs, comme � P閞a; elle a en outre dans son int閞ieur un petit havre qui peut contenir trois ou quatre gal鑢es.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The warm fireside at the Blucher cheered him too, and his supper of eggs and bacon and fresh crisp havre-bread satisfied such of his physical cravings as, unsatisfied, make a man's spiritual perceptions very gaunt.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Jenny go short to save to-day's baking of havre-bread, in skimping Tim's bowl of porridge -- his appetite being a burden on her estate which she often declared would break her -- she had more than once given a hundred pounds at a blow to build a raft for a poor drowning wretch who must otherwise have sunk.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Her home had always been the _havre de grace_, known and venerated by them all; a meeting place for reconciliation between persons whose self-control had escaped them; the shelter for prodigal and repentant sons who awaited the forgiveness of their justly wrathful sires; the comforting haven that seemed to assuage the pangs of departure and bereavement.

    With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard

  • 'N.B. -- Oats in Danish are havre, which suggests O.N. hafrar, goats.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.