单词 | sitting chamber |
释义 | > as lemmassitting chamber C4. attributive, with the sense ‘designating a room or other place used for sitting in’, as sitting chamber, sitting parlour, etc.Recorded earliest in sitting room n. 1a. ΚΠ 1763 St. James's Chron. 23 July To be Lett..Witton Hall..consisting of an elegant and commodious Dining-Room, Drawing-Room, Parlour, and Sitting-Room, upon one floor. 1787 St. James's Chron. 4 Sept. Her Sitting-Parlour has unfortunately participated in the Character of the Drawing-Room. 1799 Bye Laws governing Poor of St. Mary-le-Bone 11 That the Master and Matron do every Sunday morning send one of each of the said Books into every Sitting Hall. 1828 ‘C. Sealsfield’ Austria as it Is iii. 60 The avenues to the Imperial castle, the court-yards, and the staircase which leads into the sitting chamber, were lined with the..national guards. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter III. xi. 285 Here was the governor's sleeping-cabin [on board]—his lady's sitting-cabin [etc.]. 1893 R. Blennerhassett & L. Sleeman Adventures Mashonaland xiii. 319 We were busy..putting a few finishing touches to a rustic porch, which we had added to our sitting-hut. 1977 Suburban Life Citizen (La Grange, Illinois) 23 Apr. i. 4/6 The sitting garden of the estate was originally located on the corner of Bloomingbank and Conley. 1992 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 12 June c10/3 (advt.) Large open living area, formal dining, double wall construction, 3 bedrooms with a sitting suite off the master bedroom. 2009 M. Bigley Explorer's Guide Northern Calif. 405/1 These sister hotels..have been restored to their original 19th-century opulence with Victorian-era antiques and sitting parlours. < as lemmas |
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