单词 | auction-room |
释义 | > as lemmasauction-room auction-room n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place of auction > [noun] auction-house1682 vendue house1755 auction-room1767 sale-room1813 auction-mart1821 sales room1840 1767 J. Wedgwood Let. 31 May in Sel. Lett. (1965) 55 Everybody would be apt to stroll into an Auction room. 1775 J. Andrews Lett. (1866) 81 The soldiers..took quarters..in Gould's auction room or store. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 478 A certain celebrated actor was just fit to stand at the door of an auction-room, with a long pole, and cry, ‘Pray, gentlemen, walk in’. 1936 V. A. Demant Christian Polity ii. 36 The auction-room flavour of our secular moralities. < as lemmas |
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