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- verb Present participle of
housel .
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Examples
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The three ministers had communicated by now; and there was a rustle and clatter of feet as the empty seats in front, hung with houselling cloths, began to be filled.
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Jean withdrew from the houselling cloth, wondering to be just the same as ever and already disillusioned.
The Aspirations of Jean Servien Anatole France 1884
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The King sent for one of his own chaplains that made the squire confess and do his houselling right well.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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