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Definition of Firehouses
1. firehouse [n] - See also: firehouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firehouses
Literary usage of Firehouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Division of Accounting of the City of Buffalo by Buffalo (N.Y.) Dept. of Audit and Control. Division of Accounting, Buffalo (N.Y.) Office of Comptroller (1920)
"firehouses CONSTRUCTION BONDS DUE AMOUNT 1920—21 $ . ... For erecting firehouses,
Truck No. 11 and Engine No. 33. ..."
2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1922)
"... should have introduced sliding wardrobes or adapted the harnessing devices of
firehouses before they put thousands of dollars into mechanical stages. ..."
3. Valentine's Manual of Old New Yorkby New York (N.Y.). Common Council by New York (N.Y.). Common Council (1916)
"... junk-dealers, pawnbrokers (and all other persons who were licensed by the
city), scrub-women, bell-ringers, firemen in charge of firehouses owned by the ..."
4. Copyright Licensing Regimes Covering Retransmission of Broadcast Signals edited by Howard Coble (2001)
"Are firehouses private homes? Mobile homes?16 DIRECTV believes that such ambiguity
can and should be eliminated by eliminating the "private home viewing" ..."
5. Multivariate Analysis and Its Applications by Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Ingram Olkin, Kʻai-tʻai Fang (1994)
"In most cities, fire stations (or firehouses) equipped with firemen and
apparatuses (together called a fire company) ..."
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