单词 | pewed |
释义 | pewedadj. Equipped with pews. Usually with modifying word. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > pew > [adjective] > having pews pewed1848 a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 81 St. Nichol-church..as neat pewed..as any..in England. 1708 E. Hatton New View London I. 146 It is handsomely new Pewed with Oak. 1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 77 A most miserable pued and galleried preaching-room. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iii. 83 Formerly it had been of a quiescent, well-to-do kind, represented architecturally by a small, venerable, dark-pewed chapel, built by Presbyterians. 1895 New Eng. Mag. July 540/1 The pewed and cushioned churches of old and well-to-do families. 1970 New Eng. Q. 43 462 The new multi-pewed edifice was constructed in 1755. 1999 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 7 Aug. 16 Track lighting, crystal chandeliers, pewed balconies and, behind an oak lectern, a white velvet chair used only by the bishop. 2002 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 14 Apr. f6 The small, six-pewed chapel where garlands and bouquets of flowers..are always at the ready. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1661 |
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