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harbourage, -orage|ˈhɑːbərɪdʒ|
Also 6 herberage.
[f. harbour n.1 + -age: cf. the earlier ME. herbergage, harbergage, from French.]
1. Shelter, lodging; = harbour 1.
1570Henry's Wallace xi. 1236 note, Now in hewin he has his herberage [1470 heretage]. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 234 Your King..Craues harbourage within your Citie walles. 1634Heywood Maidenh. well Lost ii. Wks. 1874 IV. 124 You shall not want nor foode, nor harborage. 1816Scott Old Mort. viii. Did you give him harbourage in this very house? 1859Tennyson Enid 281 Where can I get me harbourage for the night?
transf. and fig.1829I. Taylor Enthus. x. 297 Both infidelity and heresy have, till of late, found harbourage in the supposed or pretended corruption or uncertainty of the canon. 1876F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. xi. 174 An idea to which..he would give no harbourage.
2. A place of shelter; a lodging; = harbour 2.
1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xxvi. (1739) 113 Happy England, if the same prove good Harbourage for a fainting Nation! 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxviii, The worst of these harbourages..would unquestionably be more fitting for your residence than the abode of a despised Jew. 1883Graphic 19 May 498 The island has been a harbourage of conspiracy and sedition.
3. Shelter for ships, shelter in a haven: cf. harbour 3.
[a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 412 That Enemy..winddriven on the British Coast, would find safe Harbourage in Milford.] 1850Blackie æschylus I. 38 Harsh harbourage, hard hammocks, and scant sleep. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 204 He..took soundings all round the proposed harbourage. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 33 The new stonepier That was to make safe harbourage for the boats. |