单词 | church hall |
释义 | > as lemmaschurch hall church hall n. a hall owned by or next to a church; esp. a building near to a church and used for social gatherings, public meetings, etc.; cf. church house n.In quot. 1777 in the name of a residence. ΚΠ 1510–11 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 279 To the Chirch Halle in Ditton. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 211/1 Sir Robert Smyth, Bart. of Bere Church-Hall, in the county of Essex, to Miss Blake, of Hanover-square. 1815 Literary Panorama Oct. 148 The six [electors] whose supplies were first exhausted, found themselves obliged to..surrender their votes to avoid starvation and a third night's confinement in the Church hall. 1913 Musical Times Jan. 41/1 A hundred chamber concerts have been given at All Saints' Church Hall, Woodford Green, by Dr. E. Markham Lee. 1947 K. Tynan Let. 1 Jan. (1994) ii. 138 We moved on to the party in Bourneville Church Hall. It is a saddening place, bare & inhospitably hardseated. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 104 Within minutes, she had requisitioned a church hall and taken charge of rehousing and relief in an area..between the Finchley and Edgware Roads. < as lemmas |
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