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Housman

[ hous-muh n ]

/ ˈhaʊs mən /

noun

A(lfred) E(dward),1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar.

Example sentences from the Web for housman

Cunninghame told me as we walked home that he had seen Housman with a party of people at the Carlton last night.

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Housman then asked her to sing a song from The Merry Widow, which she did.

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Housman was proud of his Madeira and annoyed with us for not drinking enough.

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I asked who he was and found out that he was Housman of Housman & Smith.

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Housman said afterwards this was the cream of intellectual Florence.

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British Dictionary definitions for housman

Housman

/ (ˈhaʊsmən) /

noun

A (lfred) E (dward). 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar, author of A Shropshire Lad (1896) and Last Poems (1922)