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a roof's most honest argument: shelter is a verb, not a real estate listing.

means A small, simple, often crudely built dwelling or shelter, usually of one room and humble materials.

from From Old French 'hutte,' a small cottage or cabin, borrowed in turn from a Germanic source — a cousin of words tied to the idea of covering and concealing (the same family that gives us 'hide' and 'house'). At its root sits the sense of something that hunkers down and keeps the weather off: shelter stripped to its essentials.

word origin
From Old French hutte, likely rooted in Germanic for cover.
pizza empire
Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to the space station.
survival staple
Quinzhee snow huts trap body heat near freezing point.
football call
Quarterbacks bark hut to sync the snap timing.
oldest dwellings
Human huts predate agriculture by tens of thousands of years.
for instance

hobbiton movie set — 12 permanent hobbit holes built in matamata, new zealand for lord of the rings filming

alpine club hut network — 2,400+ mountain shelters across swiss alps operated by sac since 1863

scott base — new zealand research station in antarctica since 1957, consists of interconnected huts

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