air-raid shelter

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air-raid shelter (plural air-raid shelters)

  1. A structure, often a reinforced underground shelter designed to give protection against air raids.
    • 1941 July, “Notes and News: New Tube Station at Highgate”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:
      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 there) from other stations in order to gain access.

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