单词 | nightingale floor |
释义 | nightingale floorn. In Japan: a wooden floor, originally constructed in medieval times to warn of intruders, which when walked on emits a chirruping sound likened to a bird call. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > types of parlour floor1441 causey1481 pediment1747 working floor1747 parquet1814 parquet floor1819 subfloor1838 straight-joint floor1842 parquet flooring1845 working floor1850 dallage1856 nightingale floor1914 open floor1932 floating floor1934 1914 T. P. Terry Terry's Japanese Empire (1930) p. clxxx Nightingale floor. 1964 I. Fleming You only live Twice v. 62 This..is what the Japanese call a ‘nightingale floor’... Imagine trying to get across here without being heard. 1978 C. James Observer 4 June 25/7 For security at night the corridors are equipped with nightingale floors: all the boards are mounted on sleeved nails so that the whole floor sings like a bird no matter how softly you tread. 1991 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 11 The ‘nightingale floors’ made of wood from Hinoki or Japanese cypress trees were originally laid, by a technique now lost, so that they squeak to warn of intruders. 2001 J. Dodd & S. Richmond Rough Guide to Japan 468 The seemingly ordinary house is riddled with trap doors, false walls and ceilings, squeaking ‘nightingale’ floors, escape hatches, [etc.]. 2002 Daily Yomiuri 15 Sept. 20/3 Powered by..a setting that has you longing to head to Nijo Castle in Kyoto to walk across a tweetering wooden ‘nightingale floor’ yourself..the book is good old-fashioned story-telling at its best. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1914 |
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