"wartime house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wartime houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wartime house (plural wartime houses)
  1. (Canada) Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program. Tags: Canada Categories (topical): Housing Hypernyms: house
    Sense id: en-wartime_house-en-noun-Jix7NTMU Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

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