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air-raid shelter

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air-raid shelter [¦er ‚rād ¦shel·tər]
(civil engineering)
A chamber, often underground, provided with living facilities and food, for sheltering people against air attacks.


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On the roof, Sidnam Petrone were confronted by what looked like an old air-raid shelter requiring extensive structural repair and stripping out, as well as new subfloors and services.
Thus during 1940, the year Winston Churchill later called the noblest in all of English history, the year in which he declared that he had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat," Pamela, pregnant with his grandson and sleeping in the bunk right below his, shared the great man's air-raid shelter.
 
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