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Indeed, Christmas holiday candles that evoke a wholesome evening spent by the fireplace are an effortless way to maintain good spirits throughout the dark and cold days, while making sure your abode smells absolutely intoxicating.—Claire Sullivan, WWD, 30 Dec. 2024 The striking A-frame abode in Carmel-by-the-Sea, dubbed Banyan House, is the first home designed by Mark Mills, an apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship from 1944 through 1948.—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024 What Fleming calls the Blue Glass House is an 8,300-square-foot abode in Cherry Hills Village.—Justin Wingerter, The Denver Post, 11 Dec. 2024 In Travel + Leisure’s latest highlights of the most exciting new routes, December has carriers big and small kicking off dozens of new routes to the Caribbean, the South Pacific, desert abodes, and snowy mountains.—Edward Russell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for abode
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Etymology
Middle English abade, abode, from bade, bode "stay, delay" (going back to Old English bād "expectation, period of waiting," probably going back to Germanic *baiđ-, noun derivative from the base of *bīđ- "wait, bide") crossed with abiden "to abide"
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