hovels in English

noun
1
a small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling.
Despite their squalid hovels and ragged clothes, Arthur Young reported that the poor of Ireland were ‘as athletic in their form, as robust, and as capable of enduring labour as any upon earth’.
2
a conical building enclosing a kiln.
The HOVEL acts as a chimney; taking away the smoke, creating draught and protecting the oven inside from the weather and uneven draughts.
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1. You know how hovels depress me.

2. Djakarta was a collection of sweltering huts and hovels.

3. Millions live in mere hovels or are totally homeless.

4. Synonyms for Bustees include slums, ghettos, hovels, favelas, purlieus, rookeries, shanties and skid rows

5. 'There were Cheap John shops and shoemakers ' hovels and no end of low public houses.

6. Yartsov and 12 other families who were assigned rundown concrete one-room hovels clustered in a muddy field.

7. Ridgery Butts was a slovenly, poor village, clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill.

8. They therefore attracted labour without any hindrance, providing jerry-built, damp and insanitary hovels for letting to local farm workers.

9. * These durable edifices probably loomed majestically over nearby huts, hovels, and market stalls made of rough wooden frames and thatched with straw.