| 单词 | agency building |
| 释义 | > as lemmasagency building C2. General attributive in sense 2, as agency building, agency store, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1806 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 20 Jan. A hatter's shop is established at the agency house by Nimrod Doyle... Some Indian lads have promised to apply to him for instruction. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxv. 527 The last grain in the Agency storehouse was issued to them on the 14th. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xvi. 249 The band..unite in the quadrangle inclosed by the Agency buildings. 1901 S. E. White Westerners viii. 57 Rain-in-the-Face was at once an agency Indian and a reckless man. 2007 T. Rees Arc Med. Line iv. 102 By the mid-1850s..the Sioux had become entirely dependent on treaty payments and agency stores. < as lemmas |
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