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单词 night-cellar
释义 ˈnight-cellar
[f. night n. + cellar n.]
A cellar serving as a tavern or place of resort during the night for persons of the lowest class.
a1743Savage Wks. 1775 II. 271, I generally..spend the evening with him at a night cellar in the Strand.1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 188 By digging a night-cellar for such thieves, murderers, and house-breakers as ever infested the world.1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xvi, Night-cellars..for the reception and entertainment of the most abandoned of both sexes.1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. v. (1858) 243 How the thief divides has booty and drinks his punch at the night-cellar.
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