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bomb_shelter
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[ noun ] (housing) a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids
Synonyms Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made_of a bomb_shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ? |
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