单词 | chimney-corner |
释义 | chimney-cornern. 1. The corner or side of an open fireplace or hearth, i.e. of the large projecting or retreating fireplace of olden times; ‘the fireside; the seat on each end of the firegrate’ (Johnson); familiarly treated as the place of the old, the infirm, and idle. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > at side of fireplace chimney-corner1580 chimney-nooka1637 chimney-side1732 sconce1781 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn Cendrier, he that keepeth the chimney corner, a sluggard. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. E4v A tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick Pref. Every one has the priviledg to speak his mind in his Chimney-Corner. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 57 The parson would not leave the quiet of his chimney-corner. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xxxiii All but confined to the chimney-corner now. 2. attributive. (Cf. chimney n. Compounds 1b.) ΚΠ 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 300 To be made at length a Winters Tale, and Chimney-corner Discourse. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 47 A Chimney-corner Tale, fit for a Legend. 1832 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 603 (note) A chimney-corner politician..a mere speculator or unpractical dreamer. 1878 R. W. Emerson Sov. Ethics in N. Amer. Rev. 126 417 A sterile chimney-corner philosophy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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