| 单词 | from garret to kitchen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom garret to kitchen 2. A room on the uppermost floor of a house; an apartment formed either partially or wholly within the roof, an attic. from cellar to garret, from garret to kitchen, etc.: over the whole house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > upper room or loft sollarc897 roostOE loftc1385 cellara1400 roofc1405 garret1483 solier1483 hall of stage1485 coploft1571 cockloftc1580 tallet1586 cotloft1642 chamber1644 kitchen loft1648 vance-roof1655 sky-parlour1777 attic1818 soleret1851 overhead1949 dormer room1951 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [adverb] > throughout the house but and benc1375 from garret to kitchen1712 from cellar to garret1828 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton H v b What shold auaylle..a garette ful of whete or a celer ful of wyn. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 43 In Countreys that are very wette and watrishe, it is better to make them [sc. corn lofts] in Garrettes as hie as may be. 1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes xvii, in Wks. (1859) VII. 180 My Lord St. Alban said that wise Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high: and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 19 This is not for an unbutton'd fellow to discuss in the Garret, at his tressle. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 24 Two Stories high, besides Cellars and Garrats. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. viii. 35 John Bull..ran up Stairs and down Stairs, from the Kitchen to the Garrets, and from the Garrets to the Kitchen. 1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c24 Sept. (1965) I. 226 If it was possible to restore Liberty to your Country..by reduceing your selfe to a Garret, I should be pleas'd to share so glorious a poverty with you. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 219 The..lodging-house, where the poet Codrus, and his wife, were permitted to hire a wretched garret immediately under the tiles. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 302 The news of his arrival circulated from the cellar to the garret. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 80 I was through all our house yesterday, from garret to kitchen. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 211 His [Johnson's] happiest effort is a dissertation upon the advantage of living in garrets. < as lemmas |
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