英语词汇“hearth-rug”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hearth-rug
释义	ˈhearth-rug a. A rug laid before a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor. 1824Scott St. Ronan's viii, A setter is..fitter for his place on the hearth-rug than a pointer.1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Brokers & Mar.-Store, A bright red, blue, and yellow hearth-rug.1869Trollope He Knew i. (1878) 6 He would sometimes come in and eat his biscuit standing on the hearth-rug. b. attrib. (a) fireside, domestic; (b) resembling a hearth-rug. 1901Daily Chron. 31 July 7/2 Turning the hearthrug favourite into the streets is certainly better than shutting it up, slowly to starve in an unoccupied house.1902Ibid. 2 Sept. 5/2 The sparrow is far too ‘fly’ a bird for the hearth⁓rug-bred cat.1909Westm. Gaz. 20 July 5/1 The inelegant, cumbrous, and shaggy hearth-rug coats.
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