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单词 chawl
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chawln.

/tʃɔːl/
Etymology: < Marathi chāl a row of rooms let for lodgings, < Sanskrit shālā house, hall.
An Indian lodging-house.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > boarding house
pensiona1652
boarding-house1728
lodging-house1766
private hotel1796
drum1846
boarding-place1854
lodging-hall1860
rooming house1873
chawl1891
model1899
guest house1925
kipping-house1925
pensione1929
pensionnat1963
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Dec. 7/2 The gaol-bird is..better off in every way in gaol than he would be in his chawl.
1898 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 25 Feb. 312/1 Some of the Bombay ‘chawls’ or tenements, containing from 500 to 1,000 inhabitants each.
1901 Q. Rev. Oct. 566 The so-called ‘chawls’, in which a large part of the native population lives.
1946 C. Batley Archit. 31 The conglomerations of regimented concrete cubicles known as chawls.
1962 Clinard & Chatterjee in R. Turner India's Urban Future iv. 71 Urban slum dwellers reside in katras, lanes, chawls, bustees, ahatas, and cheris.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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