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harborage

[ hahr-ber-ij ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1560–70; harbor + -age

He was heartily glad, as apparently eager arms gave her the desired harborage, that the other girl was by now blocks away.

The object of Ribault had been some safe and pleasant harborage, in which his people could refresh themselves for a- 14 - season.

No town stretched out its sheltering walls before him; there was scarcely harborage for his ships.

Intemperance, extravagant living, or immorality found no harborage on Plymouth Rock, no matter under what disguise it might come.

I suppose you know, Johnson, that I am a magistrate, and the proper harborage I give to breakers of the peace is the jail.

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