wartime houses

A form of wartime house — Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of wartime house
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