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SHIRT
A house shirt is a shirt that you wear at home. And when football clubs play at home, they wear their home shirt.
SPLIT
Houses can be split into apartments. A deed of division is required for this. A house can also have a split level, where the house is split into different levels.
THE
A ‘remand center’, or a prison, is a cell complex. And almost every house contains a shower cubicle.
T
If you place the letter t in front of ‘house’, you get ‘thuis’, or ‘being at home’.
POKER
Full house is a well-known poker term.
GENTLEMEN
Mansions were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the upper class.
CASINO
Casino literally means ‘house’ in Italian. Casino bread is so called because it is baked in a baking tin with a lid, just like a house has a roof.
CARDS
You can make a house of cards from playing cards. Figuratively it stands for something that cannot last.
Door Kevin Lam from Vancouver, Canada – 20070818_1636322, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3093478
STEEN
A large proportion of the houses on earth are built of stone.
BROOM
A broom has been a traditional housewarming gift for centuries. It symbolizes a clean, fresh start, although in some cultures it is also intended to sweep evil spirits out of the house.
ICE
Igloos are houses made of snow and ice. They are made up of snow blocks. After construction, a burner is held near the ceiling for some time, causing the inside to melt a little and the water to run down the dome. Then the door is opened, causing the layer to freeze. The ice layer strengthens the igloo and has an insulating effect.
CURLING
At the end of a curling rink you can see a red and a blue circle. This is the so-called house in which the stones should end up.
BUREN
Neighbors are those who live in the house next to you.
ORANGE
The House of Orange-Nassau is a noble house and the current royal house of the Netherlands.
KING
A royal house is the term for a royal dynasty.
WILLEM ALEXANDER
King Willem-Alexander is part of the House of Orange-Nassau and is inviolable as a member of the Royal House. He lives with his family in Huis ten Bosch, the renovation of which brought him into disrepute because the government had funded the furnishing of his private quarters. There was also a fuss about his holiday home in Greece: laws were allegedly circumvented when building a private port.
REAR
‘The Secret Annex’ is the title under which Anne Frank’s diary was published. As a girl, she and her family and four other people in hiding went into hiding in the back of a house on the Prinsengracht during the Second World War. ‘The Secret Annex’ is one of the most important documents about the Holocaust.
By May be found at the following website: Anne Frank museum site., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2561430
MAN
A househusband is the male counterpart of a housewife. There are also a few well-known Dutch people with the surname Huisman: Henny Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Josje Huisman and the brothers Jordy and Sander Huisman of Kris Kross Amsterdam.
BOOM
A quiet, civil and undisturbed life is also referred to as ‘house-tree-little-animal’.
THEE
A tea house is a catering establishment where tea is served. One of the most famous tea houses in the Netherlands is located in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark, the round Blue Tea House.
ANIMALS
Pets are companion animals that are kept in and around the home.
HEK
There is often a fence around more expensive houses. The English counterpart of ‘huisje-boompje-beestje’ is ‘a house with a picket white fence’: a house with a white garden fence.
SLANG
The African house snake is a common snake species in South Africa.
PEOPLE
A public house is a social meeting place for workers.
GARDEN
‘Eigen Huis en Tuin’ is a well-known TV program that has been around since 1993. In the Netherlands, about 15 percent of the population has a garden.
PRINCE BERNHARD
Prince Bernhard, the son of Pieter van Vollenhoven and Princess Margriet, owns around 600 houses in Amsterdam and has become a symbol of the abuses in the housing market. It earned him the nickname ‘pawn prince’.
GLASSES
The Glass House is a house where some DJs from NPO 3FM are locked up in the week before Christmas and play requested songs for charity. This fundraising campaign is known as Serious Request.
RENÉ FROGER
René Froger’s biggest hit is the song ‘Everything can make a person happy’. It is also known by the unofficial title ‘A house of our own’, because these words keep recurring at the beginning of the chorus.
VIRGINS
The Maagdenhuis, where the administrative center of the University of Amsterdam is located, is known because it has been occupied several times by activist students in the past.
MARTIJN KRABBÉ
Martijn Krabbé presented the TV program ‘In Holland there is a house’, in which two good neighbors renovate each other’s house.
CATS
The Catshuis is the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
By Prime Minister Rutte from the Netherlands (+31) – President Abbas arrives at the Catshuis, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28681021
MOUSE
Many animal species have the prefix ‘house’. Think of the house sparrow and the house mouse. The latter actually often occurs in homes.
CLOCK
The core of apples and pears is called the core, because of its resemblance to a bell tower.
ROOF CRAKEN
In the 1960s, the squatting movement emerged in the Netherlands due to the high vacancy of homes and the housing shortage. Squatting is illegal, but it is still done.
2023-11-25 20:15:24
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