narrow house

English

Noun

narrow house (plural narrow houses)

  1. (poetic) The grave.
    • 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 35:
      Yet if some voice that man could trust / Should murmur from the narrow house, / ‘The cheeks drop in; the body bows; / Man dies: nor is there hope in dust:’
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