harborage

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“Because of their construction, sponges provide harborage for any number and variety of microbiological organisms, many of which may be pathogenic,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s U.S.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

While rat infestations in car engines are not rare occurrences, researchers are attempting to determine whether they are increasing in areas where rats’ usual food and harborage sites have been disrupted by pandemic distancing efforts.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

Here were no coves or harborage or shelter, only steep headlands, rockfallen reefs and crags.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Early in the morning the fleet put out from its harborage, where the gods had been invoked and the priests had declared the omens kindly.

From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery)

The forests south of Lake Ontario gave harborage to the five tribes of the Iroquois, implacable foes of Canada.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis