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# housing

«housing» in Mova's school dictionary: **the decorated cloth or cover laid over a horse's back…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (housings); old use

### meaning for a pupil

A housing is the decorated cloth or cover laid over a horse's back, often with fine embroidery. (old use, in fairy tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a horse's housing is a rich covering of gold cloth, showing that the horse belongs to a king or a prince

### examples

- She rode a white horse with a housing of red silk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/#x1)
- The housings were embroidered with gold thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/#x2)
- The knight's horse wore a golden housing that shone in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- ["A retirement community" is a housing estate built for old people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «housing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.