| 单词 | son of the house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasson of the house son of the house n. the son of a family, esp. the oldest or only boy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household > son or daughter of household son of the house1529 daughter of the house1607 1529 S. Fish tr. H. Bomelius Summe Holye Script. ix. sig. F.iii The sonne of the house serveth hys father and kepeth his commaundementes not to haue wages but for loue that he hath vnto hys father. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne sig. (*)5 The Lady..borrowes..the Hosts sonne of the house, whom they dresse..like a Lady. 1796 W. Tooke tr. C. M. Wieland Private Hist. Peregrinus Proteus II. 57 Five or six other brisk young lads..who, as the sons of the house, seemed emulous to shew us that we were hospitably received. 1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 32 Lady Mount Cashal was handed out of the Room by Monsieur l'Abbé Sièyes, and I by Monsieur, the Son of the House. 1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof ii. 54 The modern butler..looks like the son of the house. 1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover ii. i. 122 A village blacksmith's daughter, who had come to London at fourteen as an underhousemaid..[and] was seduced by the son of the house. < as lemmas |
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