单词 | pied-à-terre |
释义 | pied-à-terren. A small house, flat, or room (usually in a town) kept as an occasional residence by a person whose permanent home is elsewhere; a secondary residence acting as a base from which to pursue a particular activity. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary harbourc1300 sojourna1375 restinga1382 resting placea1382 sojourninga1400 diversoryc1410 deversaryc1485 inn1529 roost1607 peregrination1610 roosting place1643 harbourage1651 séjour1769 pied-à-terre1823 hoochie1952 1823 T. Moore Mem. (1853) IV. 121 Poor wretches, who marry upon the strength of this pied-à-terre, and swarm the little spot they occupy with children. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Let. 15 Mar. (1965) II. 815 I have not yet written to thank you for a much more independent and promising pied-à-terre than I could have found in the tents of the stranger. 1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady v. i. 383 Richard Calmady had taken her husband's villa at Naples on lease, it offering..a convenient pied à terre to him while yachting along the adjacent coasts. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling i. 7 Australia is still a land of change and Australians, generally, are a restless race, preferring a mere pied-à-terre before a taxable home-fire. 1995 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 21/2 Locals, dismayed that the ‘villagey’ feel of the area, where scores of MPs own pied a terres would be destroyed, had the plans blocked. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823 |
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