OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36719

air-raid shelter

Meanings (ES + gloss)
refugio antiaéreo • refugio antibombas
A structure, often a reinforced underground shelter designed to give protection against air raids.
This tunnel assumed some measure of importance during the second world war, when it was used nightly as an air raid shelter for multiple unit electric trains which were propelled o…
With the intensification of air raids on London last September, these tube platforms began to be used as an air raid shelter, and shelterers travelled by train (specially stopped t…
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