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单词 garden-house
释义 ˈgarden-house
[f. garden n. + house.]
1. Any small building in a garden; a summer-house.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 212 This is the body That..did supply thee at thy garden-house In her Imagin'd person.1678Dryden Limberham i. i, I was just coming down to the garden-house.1727De Foe Secrets Invis. W. (1735) 251 As he was sitting alone in a Summer-House as we call it, or Garden-House, as they more properly call it there [Leipsick].1821Scott Kenilw. xx, Pointing to an old ruinous garden-house.
b. dial. and U.S. A privy.
1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Garden-house, a privy; an out-door closet.
2. A dwelling-house situated in a garden; a suburban residence.
1607Dekker & Webster Northward Ho ii. ii, Because..to be pent up in a narrow lodging here i' the city may offend her health, she shall lodge at a garden-house of mine in Moorfields.1627in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 243 Sir Francis Barrington..is gone out of the Marshalsea to a garden-house in Southwark.1673R. Head Canting Acad. 74 Having an occasion to go over to the bank-side, in a Garden house.1738Birch Life Milton in M.'s Wks. I. 20 He..took an handsome Garden House in Aldersgate-street.1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 133 Interspersed with the garden-houses, or suburban retreats of the wealthy merchants.
b. In the early 17th c. often used for a house kept for immoral purposes. Obs.
1607Beaum. & Fl. Woman Hater ii. i, This is no garden house, in my conscience, shee went forth with no dishonest intent.a1625Fletcher Love's Cure iii. i, Thou shalt be my Bawd..Thy old wife [shall]..weare a hood, Nay keepe my garden-house.
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