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  • n  rough shelter whose roof has only one slope

  • On the premises there was a small, walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to.
  • In an adjoining lean-to that served that served as a kitchen, candy bars and dirty dishes lay on a table in front of a smeared mirror.
  • A lean-to garage in Ravenscourt Park, an unassuming residential suburb in London's west, seems an unlikely setting for a copper still, but it's perfect for the artisanal barley .
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  • Ellen Leonida in CNN
    The fact that Esther Fielding describes the years they spent in a lean-to as 'fun' and 'like camping' is a telling example of the profound narcissism that defines the adults in Scott's life,Leonida wrote.

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