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HOMES

noun C2
  1. An acronym for remembering the names of the five Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
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“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 20 · B2
Then the mice were unharnessed from the truck and scampered away through the grass to their homes.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 56 · B2
Other children questioned, in their homes across the seas:
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 26 · C1
“No, they are the homes of our worthy ancestors.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 83 · C1

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