释义 |
ˈthree-pair, a. In full, three pair of stairs (see pair n.1 6 b). Of or belonging to the third floor, as in three-pair room, three-pair back, three-pair front, three-pair window.
1788Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 217 Out of a three-pair-of-stairs window. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xli, Like a squirrel in his cage, hung out of a three pair of stairs window. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxi, In the two-pair back of the house..or in the three-pair front. 1883Mrs. Plunkett in Harper's Mag. Jan. 236/2 Kate was established in the little ‘three pair back’. |