abri

• Interestingly, the French term for their homeless is les sans-abri, literally "without shelter" -- and that seems much closer to what Taranto wants as a definition for the truly homeless. —  Who Is IOZ?
• All round red clay, out of which the abri was excavated. —  One Man's Initiation—1917
• The tents d'abri--if the men can scrape away the snow, and get an armful of straw to lie on--are snug enough; the men lie close together, and share their blankets Half an hour after arriving at Orleans, Colonel Tempe and Ralph were riding out upon the north road; followed by Tim Doyle, and the colonel's orderly. —  The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
• Yes, those were brave times for the Rommany chals, to which the old people often revert with a sigh: the poor Gypsies, say they, were then allowed to sove abri (sleep abroad) where they listed, to heat their kettles at the foot of the oaks, and no people grudged the poor persons one night's use of a meadow to feed their cattle in Footnotes 147a} 'I, who am a smuggler.' —  The Pocket George Borrow
• In another second everybody had calculated the spot in which it was about to land, and those whom it threatened had swiftly found shelter, either by continuing down the trench to a sharp turn, running into the door of an abri (shelter), or simply snuggling into a hole dug in the side of the trench. —  A Volunteer Poilu

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