housewall

See also: house-wall and house wall

English

Noun

housewall (plural housewalls)

1. Alternative spelling of house wall
   • 1959, William Stearns Davis, A day in old Rome: a picture of Roman life, page 17:

     […] To any later judgment this "Mercury Street" (so named from a local temple) is very narrow, not over fifteen feet from housewall to housewall.

   • 1993, Erwin Neumayer, Lines on stone: the prehistoric rock art of India, page 270:

     A comparison between ancient rock pictures and modern housewall pictures often discloses strong stylistic […]

   • 1997, Richard J. Regan, The Human Constitution (translation of selected passages by Thomas Aquinas), page 19:

     But we obviously do not attribute the activity of seeing to a housewall because there are in the housewall the colors whose likenesses are in the sense of sight […]