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

"I suppose you know, Johnson, that I am a magistrate, and the proper harborage I give to breakers of the peace is the jail."

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

It seemed a lonely little house of scholarship, with its playground worn so bare that even two months of idleness had given scant harborage for the seeds that wind and bird must have brought there.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)