单词 | château |
释义 | châteaun. a. A castle; a large mansion or country house (cf. castle n. 3): used only in reference to France and other parts of the Continent. (Formerly in more general use.) Also occasionally used in reference to Britain. Also attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial palacec1300 dome1553 residencea1616 great house1623 mansion house1651 palazzo1657 châteauc1739 mansion1815 palacio1839 haveli1871 puri1935 c1739 J. Nixon Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) viii. 165 As for our Manner of Life it is (like our Château) collegiate. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 186 Then General Webb took two Regiments..and marched them along in order to beat the French out of a Shattow. 1756 H. Walpole Let. 18 June (1857) III. 21 I..return to my château this evening. 1789 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) iv. 37 At a distance..was a chateau of a considerable German nobleman. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Dalziel The mansion-house of Dalziel, attached to the old tower or chateau of the manor. 1844 N. P. Willis Pencillings cxxxvii. 212/2 The river is between you and the chateau [sc. Abbotsford] as you come down to Melrose from the North. 1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 162 From a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau. 1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 109 He was transferred from the dungeon to the château. 1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. xxi. 211 Boughton, a gloomy French château-looking house. 1963 House & Garden Mar. 57/1 ‘Visit the Château Country’ adjure the travel posters. And that, of course, means the châteaux of the Loire. b. A French vineyard, usually in the neighbourhood of a château; frequently in the names of wines made at these vineyards. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > vineyard winyardc888 vinera1340 vineyarda1340 vinea1382 vineryc1420 vine-gardenc1449 vine-garthc1450 vignoble1480 château1754 cru1824 vintage1840 wine farm1923 1754 Chesterfield in World No. 91. ¶2 The wine was the very same which they had all approved of the day before; and..was true Chateau Margoux. 1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 148 In this commune is grown the famous first quality, Château Margaux. 1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 150 Nearly all the Château Lafitte, and indeed most of the other growths of this commune, are consumed in England. It is lighter than Château Latour. a1845 R. H. Barham Lord of Thoulouse in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 186 Chambertin, Chateau Margaux, La Rose, and Lafitte. 1886 Colonial & Indian Exhib.: Official Catal. S. Austral. Court 34/2 Twenty cases and one quarter cask Chateau Beaumont wine. 1894 ‘X. L.’ Aut Diabolus aut Nikil 20 ‘Chateau Margaux, M. l'Abbé?’ murmured the butler in his ear. 1929 C. Beaton Diary 7 Dec. in Wandering Years (1961) 181 A little soufflé should be washed down with a glass of Chateau Yquem. 1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. xiii. 183 I don't think they found our Château d'Yquem... Shall I bring you up a bottle? 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xv. 204 I spent it riotously on château wines. c. châteaux in air, chateau(x) en Espagne, château in Spain, Spanish château = castles, or a castle, in the air (see castle n. 11). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] castle in Spainc1400 reverie1477 brown studyc1555 castle in the skies1576 castle in the air1579 comedown1583 memento1587 towers in the air1599 daydream1651 dream1732 air castle1786 châteaux in air1793 chateau(x) en Espagne1834 cloud-castle1887 pipe dream1890 fantasy1926 1793 W. Cowper To W. Hayley Dear architect of fine chateaux in air. 1834 A. Prinsep Baboo II. 351 I framed a thousand domestic rules, and built a multitude of chateaux en Espagne. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 349 Higgins had been Almascharizing [sic]—building chateaux en Espagne. 1852 C. J. Lever Daltons xxi It was, however, an Irish fortune, and, like a Spanish château, its loss is more a question of feeling than of fact. 1854 N. Hawthorne Mosses I. 270 She endowed him..with an unreckonable amount of wealth. It consisted..of half a million acres of vineyard at the North Pole, and of a castle in the air, and a chateau in Spain. 1873 J. S. Mill Autobiogr. iv. 91 It had been a part of their Château en Espagne that my father should be the editor. 1888 Church Q. Rev (Dixon) Mere châteaux en Espagne, the creation of architectural fancy run mad. Compounds château-bottled adj. (of a wine) bottled at the vineyard. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > bottled in specific place château-bottled1888 estate-bottled1940 London-bottled1959 domaine-bottled1960 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 605/2 All the finer descriptions are put into bottle before shipment, the corks bearing the name of the château and the vintage, as is the case with the château-bottled red wine. 1937 Times 30 Dec. 6/3 Our now suddenly enlarged architectural cellar will, for some time, have a lot of queer wine in it that the fully qualified château-bottled vintages will find surprising company. 1959 Times 27 Nov. 11/7 A château-bottled wine from the great châteaux will always be good. 1969 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 10/5 Branded wines..are relatively cheap, whereas domaine- and château-bottled wines are becoming increasingly expensive. 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