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# housing

noun (housings); old use

«housing» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/#m1)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/#x1)
- The housings were embroidered with gold thread. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «housing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/housing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«housing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/housing.html) on Mova free.