| 单词 | reading closet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreading closet reading closet n. now rare (a) a reading room in a house; (b) a small compartment used by a proofreader in a printing office. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment > rooms in printing establishment > compartment in reading room reading closet1769 1769 Eng. Displayed I. 113/2 Her ladyship's reading closet is excessively elegant. 1784 T. Tyers Conversat. Polit. & Familiar p. vi As these sheets are past through the press, they are welcome to the reading closets of old and new acquaintance. 1800 R. M. Roche Nocturnal Visit II. iii. 45 The reading-closet adjoining Miss Barclay's dressing-room. 1886 Referee 10 Jan. 1/2 I was getting an honest..living in the composing-room or the reading-closet. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 114 Through a lane of clanking drums he made his way towards Nannetti's reading closet. 1965 I. Stone Those who Love 44 The attraction for Abigail was its reading closet, into which was built a comfortable desk and bookshelves, with a window looking over the gardens. < as lemmas |
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