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four walls promising shelter while quietly inventing new ways to need repair
means The plural of house — multiple buildings made for people to live in.
from From Old English 'hus,' a word so old it barely changed shape over the centuries, with cousins all across the Germanic family — German 'Haus,' Dutch 'huis,' Old Norse 'hus.' Its deepest roots are murky, but one tempting guess links it to a sense of 'covering' or 'hiding,' as in something that shelters and conceals what's inside. The plural simply tacked on '-s,' the workhorse English ending, leaving 'house' largely intact while gathering its neighbors into a row.
- oldest standing
- Stone homes in Scotland predate Egypt's pyramids
- sinking giants
- Mexico City buildings sink into ancient lakebed yearly
- underground living
- Australia's Coober Pedy houses thousands in dugout caves
- upside down
- Inverted houses exist as tourist attractions worldwide
- narrowest
- Warsaw's Keret House measures four feet wide
fallingwater — frank lloyd wright's cantilevered house built over a waterfall in pennsylvania, 1935
monticello — thomas jefferson's neoclassical plantation house in charlottesville, virginia
the winchester mystery house — sarah winchester's mansion in san jose with 160 rooms and continuously renovated for 38 years