houseback
English
Etymology
house + back
Noun
houseback (plural housebacks)
- The rear of a house.
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, Genoa and The Mediterranean
- Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit / On housebacks pink, green, ochreous […]
- 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke
- 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 […]
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, Genoa and The Mediterranean
Anagrams
- Backhouse, back house, back-house, backhouse