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plural storehouses
A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions. quotations examples
Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175
(figurative, by extension) A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found. examples
(obsolete) A mass or quantity laid up. quotations
enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit
1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […]
third-person singular simple present storehouses, present participle storehousing, simple past and past participle storehoused
(transitive) To lay up in store. examples