harborage
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“Because of their construction, sponges provide harborage for any number and variety of microbiological organisms, many of which may be pathogenic,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s U.S.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
While rat infestations in car engines are not rare occurrences, researchers are attempting to determine whether they are increasing in areas where rats’ usual food and harborage sites have been disrupted by pandemic distancing efforts.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
Here were no coves or harborage or shelter, only steep headlands, rockfallen reefs and crags.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Early in the morning the fleet put out from its harborage, where the gods had been invoked and the priests had declared the omens kindly.
From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner
After the great defeat of Lake Regillus, the Latin cities made peace with Rome, and agreed to refuse harborage to the old king.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
