| 单词 | barrack yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarrack yard barrack yard n. Trinidad and Tobago (now historical) an area of land having small, roughly-constructed dwellings with shared facilities, originally inhabited by labourers but later also used principally as housing for the poor.Cf. yard n.1 Additions 1a, tenement yard n. (b) at tenement n. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > slum(s) rookery1824 slum1825 slumdom1882 warren1884 slummery1892 slumland1893 barrack yard1903 tenement yard1914 borgata1929 string slum1939 squatter camp1956 favela1961 1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Sept. 712/2 A woman who lived in a barrack yard in the south-east of the town developed the disease [sc. varicella]. 1929 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 May 25/4 Housing and Labour... [In Port of Spain] there are..‘barrack yards’,..where over 50 per cent of the city's entire population live in a terribly insanitary and overcrowded state. 2015 Borrowers & Lenders 9 2 In the weeks leading up to Carnival, calypsonians would gather in makeshift tents in barrack yards to practice and perform. < as lemmas |
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