单词 | high-studded |
释义 | > as lemmashigh-studded 5. Originally U.S. With modifying word, as high-studded, low-studded: (of a room) having a high or low ceiling (see stud n.1 1c). Chiefly New Zealand in later use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [adjective] > of high or low height low-studded1787 1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 13 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 269 It is a very large chamber, and high studded. 1830 C. R. Williams Tales: National & Revolutionary 177 The rooms were mostly so low studded, as to endanger the head of a tall man. 1873 T. B. Aldrich Marjorie Daw 155 I passed quickly into the house..and found myself in a long, low-studded bar-room. 1884 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham iii. 54 Certainly, have the parlours high-studded... Have the entrance-story low studded. 1891 Harper's Mag. Dec. 119/1 The roof of the house slanted from back to front, so that the two rooms were lower studded than the studio. 1934 E. Wharton Backward Glance x. 251 A few steps brought us to the door of a low-studded cottage in a gap of the hanging woods. 2007 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 June (Features section) 4 The specialised wine room, set in an elegant, high-studded Art Deco building, finds customers arriving late morning. < as lemmas |
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