单词 | ruffian's hall |
释义 | > as lemmasruffian's hall 11. In allusive phrases: bachelor('s) hall, an establishment presided over by an unmarried man, or a man in the absence of his wife; (U.S.) apartments for bachelors. †cutpurse hall, †ruffian's hall, a place where cutpurses or ruffians congregate, or exercise their pursuits. See also liberty hall n. at liberty n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people grass house1557 woman-house1566 fishing-house1676 family house1727 henhouse1785 women-house1792 bachelor('s) hall1841 bachelor-apartment1857 garçonnière1927 bachelor1968 bachelorette1973 pit house1974 squat1975 1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar iii. vii. sig. Gv 'Tis the cunningst nimmer Of the whole company of cut-purse hall. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 77 My gate ruffians hall: What insolence is this? 1833 H. Barnard in Maryland Hist. Mag. 13 369 He keeps bachelor's Hall. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 60 Here are congregated store-houses, boarding houses, and bachelor's halls. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. l. 74 I'll have my Bachelor's Hall at the counting-house. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xi. 134 ‘Bachelor's Hall you know, cousin,’ said Mr. Jonas. 1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake ii. vi. 235 Several of them kept ‘bachelors' hall’ together in a small house. 1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 226 Captain Sol, who was a widower, and kept bachelor's hall, so to speak. 1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial i. 25 He keeps bachelor hall in a small bungalow near the village. ruffian's hall ruffian's hall n. now rare (originally) a part of Smithfield market in London where ruffians met to compete at rough swordplay; (hence) a place where ruffians congregate or belong, or to which they are assigned. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencing place ruffian's hall1592 fencing-hall1601 salle d'armes1885 piste1906 salle1961 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E3 As if men will needes carouse, conspire and quarrell, that they may make Ruffians hall of hell. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 76 Beat down their weapons. My gate ruffians hall: What insolence is this? 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 323 He is only fit for Ruffians hall. 1866 London Society May 443/2 Sir Richard Rich..gave a turn with his own hand to the rack by which Anne Askew was tortured; so he was quite at home..in Ruffian's Hall. 1939 P. Lindsay Mirror for Ruffians vii. 205 Although we have decided that murder alone is not sufficient guarantee for Ruffians' Hall she is worth a passing notice. < as lemmas |
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