| 单词 | frame cottage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasframe cottage a. General attributive, as frame boat, frame construction, frame cottage, etc. ΚΠ 1826 Times 19 Aug. 4/4 (advt.) Hewing and felling axes, hedging bills, and a general assortment of builder's ironmongery; also a new frame cottage, 32 feet by 20. 1848 W. Scott in Ecclesiologist Aug. 26 The bell tower, if a tower, should be of the frame construction. 1849 W. F. Lynch Narr. U.S. Exped. to River Jordan & Dead Sea xi. 264 On the third morning I was obliged to abandon the frame boat from her shattered condition. 1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine iv. 12 A little frame cottage, standing on high pillars. 1940 E. L. Bloomster Sailing & Small Craft down Ages 106 The frame boat is of ordinary construction. The masts of the bugeyes are raked aft excessively, but they sail well. 1956 J. M. Richards in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 381 Rhythmic façade patterns that frame-construction naturally promotes. 1990 C. W. Bishir North Carolina Archit. ii. 152 Whereas smokehouses might be of plank or frame construction, dairies were usually built of frame. 2005 J. Cruikshank Do Glaciers Listen? ii. iv. 137 He was shown the surviving frame boat and described it in detail. < as lemmas |
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