单词 | bachelor-apartment |
释义 | > as lemmasbachelor-apartment b. Also bachelor-apartment, bachelor-cottage, bachelor-flat, bachelor-quarters: occupied by a bachelor. (Also attributive in 1a, 4 above.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people grass house1557 woman-house1566 fishing-house1676 family house1727 henhouse1785 women-house1792 bachelor('s) hall1841 bachelor-apartment1857 garçonnière1927 bachelor1968 bachelorette1973 pit house1974 squat1975 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxx. 591 Ah, but he lived in a sweet bachelor-apartment. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xii. 109 Mr. Mortimer Lightwood and Mr. Eugene Wrayburn..had taken a bachelor cottage near Hampton. 1912 T. Dreiser Financier lxxiii. 762 He occupied a bachelor apartment in North Fifteenth Street. 1921 S. McKenna Educ. E. Lane i. 42 If one of your brothers saw fit to invite my sister to a bachelor flat. 1934 H. Brighouse Exhibit C in Best One-act Plays 1933 35 (stage direct.) A minimum of furnishing indicates..that this is a bachelor flat. 1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk ii. 62 I've come to inspect the new bachelor quarters. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. B3/1 (advt.) Accommodation..from bachelor apartment to 6-bedroom home..in some of Ottawa's finest locations. < as lemmas |
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