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hovel

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1. hovel - Noun

2. hovel - Verb

Meaning

An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

To put in a hovel; to shelter.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace

I realised that Nuto was quite right when he said that to live in a hovel or in a palace was one and the same thing, that blood is the same colour everywhere, and that everybody wants to be rich and in love and make their fortune. Cesare Pavese

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. Jacqueline Cochran

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. Emily Brontë

Five of us squished together in what is effectively a two-bedroom, toy-strewn hovel. Source: Internet

Just because you can only pay $850 for an apartment instead of $1,100 in rent doesn’t mean you have to live in a hovel or share a room with cockroaches. Source: Internet

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