| 单词 | cathouse |
| 释义 | > as lemmascat-house cat-house n. (a) (see 6 above); (b) a house for cats; (c) slang a brothel. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed sow1297 mantel1357 snail1408 vinet1408 whelk1408 circlec1440 barbed-cat1489 mantle1489 mantlet1524 vine1565 tortoise1569 sow-guard1582 penthouse1600 penticle1600 target-roof1601 vinea1601 fence-roof1609 testudo1609 cat-house1614 vineyard1650 tortoiseshell1726 manta1829 cat1833 ram-house1850 tortoise-roof1855 bear1865 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > cattery or cat-house cattery1791 cat-house1895 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 239 This Cathouse answerable to the cattus mentioned by Vegetius, was vsed in the siege of Bedford Castle in the time of King Henry the third. 1840 L. Ritchie Windsor Castle 215 The gattus or cat house, the belfry and sow..were covered machines, used to protect soldiers in their attacks upon the gates or walls. 1895 C. J. Cornish Life at Zoo 236 It is obvious that so active and beautiful an animal could not be seen with advantage..in the cramped little cages of the present Cat House. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 202 Cat house, a brothel. 1934 T. Wilder Heaven's my Destination vi. 113 On Sunday you raped a whole cat-house. 1935 ‘G. Orwell’ Clergyman's Daughter ii. 113 He's took her abroad an' sold her to one o'dem flash cat-houses in Parrus. 1968 D. Francis Forfeit x. 120 He walked straight out of the Cat House. cat-house a. A movable pent-house used in early times by besiegers to protect themselves in approaching fortifications, also called cat-house: cf. belfry n., sow n.1 In Old French chat-chastel (Cotgrave), medieval Latin cattus.Caxton has barbed cat: otherwise little evidence appears of its use in English, except by modern historians translating Latin cattus or French chat. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed sow1297 mantel1357 snail1408 vinet1408 whelk1408 circlec1440 barbed-cat1489 mantle1489 mantlet1524 vine1565 tortoise1569 sow-guard1582 penthouse1600 penticle1600 target-roof1601 vinea1601 fence-roof1609 testudo1609 cat-house1614 vineyard1650 tortoiseshell1726 manta1829 cat1833 ram-house1850 tortoise-roof1855 bear1865 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxix. I vj b For to make a werrely holde that men calle a barbed catte, and a bewfray that shal have ix. fadome of lengthe and two of brede, and the said catte six fadome of lengthe and two of brede. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 239 This Cathouse answerable to the cattus mentioned by Vegetius, was vsed in the siege of Bedford Castle in the time of King Henry the third. 1833 R. Southey Naval Hist. Eng. I. 85 Machines which, under the names of ‘Cats’ and ‘Sows’, were used in sieges. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xx. 322 A strong pent-house which they called ‘a cat’. 1885 C. Oman Art of War 58 If the moat could be filled, and the cat brought close to the foot of the fortifications. < as lemmas |
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