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housetop

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house·top  (houstp)
n.
The roof of a house.
Idiom:
shout/proclaim from the housetops
To make known publicly.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.housetophousetop - the roof of a house; "shout it from the housetops"
roof - a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
Translations
housetop [ˈhaʊstɒp] Ntejado m
to shout sth from the housetopspregonar algo a los cuatro vientos
housetop [ˈhaʊsˌtɒp] n to proclaim or shout sth from the housetops (fig) → proclamare qc ai quattro venti
housetop [ˈhaʊsˌtɒp] n to proclaim or shout sth from the housetops (fig) → proclamare qc ai quattro venti


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It was a wire stretching from housetop to housetop.
Well, sir, they roosted around here on the housetop and the trees for an hour, and guffawed over that thing like human beings.
The result of that conference was, that Gabelle again withdrew himself to his housetop behind his stack of chimneys; this time resolved, if his door were broken in (he was a small Southern man of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head foremost over the parapet, and crush a man or two below.
 
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