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Definition of Backhouses
1. backhouse [n] - See also: backhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backhouses
Literary usage of Backhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Sketch of the Life of Anna Backhouse: By One who Knew Her Well by Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney, Anna Backhouse (1852)
"I am sorrow not to have written during last week, which has been as pleasant as
any we have spent, excepting that the backhouses going has left quite a ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1848)
"The backhouses are no longer on the Board of the Stockton and Darlington Railway,
but Edward Backhouse is a director of, the Durham and Sunderland Railway; ..."
3. Swallowfield and Its Owners by Constance Charlotte Elisa Lennox Russell (1901)
"The backhouses were of ancient and honourable descent, but the origin of their
name seems undecided, it being doubtful whether it is, as some say, ..."
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