| 单词 | porter's lodge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasporter's lodge porter's lodge n. (also porter-lodge, chiefly Scottish) a lodge for the porter at the gate of a castle, college, park, etc., formerly used as a place of punishment for servants and dependants. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > building used for porter's lodge1471 whipping-house1852 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation > lodgehouse or gatehouse gatehousec1380 porter's lodge1471 lodge1504 gate-room1702 gate-lodge1922 1471–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 644 Factura muri infra le Porterloge. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 231 Strangenes, quhair that he did ly, Wes brint in to the porter luge. ?1544 J. Bale Epist. Exhortatorye f. xiiiv Whye Whynchestre hynge Thomas Sarye a man lerned, in his porters lodge at the Stewes, the cause is not yet knowen. 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iii. ii. sig. G3v Fit companie, only for Pages and for foot boyes, That haue perused the Porters Lodge. 1738 J. Breval Remarks Several Parts Europe: Tours since 1723 I. 60 Some little adjoining Habitation, that has rather the Air of a Porter's Lodge, than of a Nobleman's Palace. 1819 Times 30 Aug. 2/3 The keys..were on Saturday stolen from the porter's lodge. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 106 Gang doon to the porter-lodge, and wait till I come till ye. 1992 P. C. Doherty Prince of Darkness (BNC) 93 Corbett smiled and they went across to the porter's lodge near the main gate. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。