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Examples

  • I think I have 2o inches here at my housse, but it's hard to say because the wind blew so much the snow drifted a lot.

    Fine Trip to Philly Susan Palwick 2008

  • Also: le drap-housse = fitted sheet le drap de bain = bath towel le drap de plage = beach towel

    drap - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • Also: le drap-housse = fitted sheet le drap de bain = bath towel le drap de plage = beach towel

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • Also: le drap-housse = fitted sheet le drap de bain = bath towel le drap de plage = beach towel

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • I notice with all the polling the we are looking pretty good to take one of the housse.

    Firedoglake » Feeling Broken, But Still On the Line 2006

  • Shaping in this context has a history; it was first used in 1564 in an English archdeaconry: “His shappinge apparell was a yowlowe sattanne dublet and a payre of housse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Shaping in this context has a history; it was first used in 1564 in an English archdeaconry: “His shappinge apparell was a yowlowe sattanne dublet and a payre of housse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Shaping in this context has a history; it was first used in 1564 in an English archdeaconry: “His shappinge apparell was a yowlowe sattanne dublet and a payre of housse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Shaping in this context has a history; it was first used in 1564 in an English archdeaconry: “His shappinge apparell was a yowlowe sattanne dublet and a payre of housse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • "I did no more than bend a few housse ruless, not break them."

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

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