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Meaning & History
Pronounced to rhyme with hose, a variant of Howe with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. Hose (Leicestershire), recorded as Howes in 1086, is named with the plural of Old English hōh ‘hill spur’.Pronounced to rhyme with cows, a variant of Howe (see Hugh), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.