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单词 spence
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spencen.1

Brit. /spɛns/, U.S. /spɛns/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s spens(e, Middle English spenyse.
Etymology: Aphetically < Old French despense (modern French dépense ), = Spanish despensa , Portuguese despensa , Italian dispensa , medieval Latin despensa , dispensa (rarely spensa ), in the same sense: compare dispense n.1 So Swiss dialect spense. The prefix de- is similarly dropped in other words; in this case there may have been association with spense n.
1. A room or separate place in which victuals and liquor are kept; a buttery or pantry; a cupboard. Now dialect or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun]
cellar?c1225
larderc1305
pantrya1325
butleryc1325
spencec1386
larder-house1390
aumbrya1398
lardinera1400
meatfettle1440
spinde1481
selyer1483
pantyr?a1500
vault1500
eschansonnery1514
lardrya1552
lard-house1555
coveyc1593
brine-house1594
dispense1622
reservatory1647
provedore1694
ice cellar1735
spring house1755
provision house1787
futtah1834
pataka1842
α.
c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 223 Fat as a whale, and walking as a swan; Al vinolent as Botel in the spence.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 23026 I hadd no maner lyberte;..in the seller, nor in the spence, ete nor drynke on no syde.
c1460 Play of Sacram. 529 He syttyth with sum tapstere in ye spence.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Qiij If we..bring out of (the buttery) or spence all the meate that is left.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. v. 22 [A] vaulted roome, which shal also be for the huswifes vse and serue for a spence, to keepe her prouision of victuals in.
1684 G. Meriton York-shire Dial. (E.D.S.) 183 Our Sew hes been 'ith Spence, thrawn down Whigg-Stand.
1720 Postmaster 25 Nov. 103 House..contains Four Chambers,..a Kitchen, with two Spences.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Spence, a small place for setting milk or drink in, made with wainscot, or a lattice.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvii. 253 In one large aperture, which the robber facetiously called his spence (or pantry). View more context for this quotation
1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. (1871) Ser. i. 110 Nancy must have something to drink before she started for Penzance, and she went to the spence for the bottles.
figurative.1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xix. xii. 141 These cruell enterludes, which out of a spence or budget of craftie devices he brought forth.β. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 578 Dispensa, a spense.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1441 He bare þe bordeclath to þe spens.1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xv. f. 151v I haue .II. spensis: one for euery day: a nother for store of all vitayle, tyll newe come.1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 6 Hir keyes..of hir spens, hir ark of hir claithing and jewells, or of hir cist or coffer.
2. Scottish. An inner apartment of a house; a parlour.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > best room
chamber1644
front room1679
best room1719
fore-room1728
spence1786
parlour1825
speak-a-word room1825
α.
1786 R. Burns Poems 67 Our Bardie, lanely, keeps the spence.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 103 Ben i' the Spence, right pensivelie, I gaed to rest.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iv. 139 They rushed into the spence (a sort of interior apartment in which the family eat their victuals in the summer season), but there was no one there.
1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 154 Others assisted in conveying the invalid to the spence of the inn, which had been readily offered for the accommodation of the family.
3. attributive, as spence-basket, spence-door.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Spens Spense-Door, the door between the kitchen and the spense.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ix. 180 A peg behind the spence door.
1881 J. E. Cussans Hist. Hertfordshire III. ii. 321 Spence-Basket, a basket used by waggoners to hold provisions for their journey.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

spencen.2

Forms: Also Middle English spense.
Etymology: Substituted for spencer n.1, after spence n.1
Obsolete. rare.
A steward.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > head servant or house steward
stewardc1000
spencea1300
spender1340
spencerc1380
maître d'hôtel1540
major-domo1589
dapifer1636
khansama1645
sirkar1772
maître d'1942
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28740 For quat [need] es þat spense [v.r. spenser] mai be Nithing þar þe lauerd es fre.
c1325 Metr. Hom. 165 Hir spense [v.r. spensar] knew hir fleysleye.
1568 R. Henryson in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 222 The spens [?a1500 spenser] come in wt keis in his hand.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. ii. 367 In the scripture we meete with these wordes, the iudge of vniustice, the spence of wickednesse, the man of sinne,..which in our phrase of speaking, do signify an vniust iudge, a wicked spence, and a sinnefull..man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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