| 单词 | châteaux in air |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschâteaux in air 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. < as lemmas |
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