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单词 ruffian's hall
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ruffian'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.
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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. 134Bachelor'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.
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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.
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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.
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