| 单词 | book house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook house book house n. (a) a library (now historical and rare); †(b) (in quot. 1675) a publishing house or bookshop (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] book houseOE aumbrya1225 libraryc1449 Athenaeum1799 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 126 Librarium, bochus. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 1 Þis boc is dan Michelis of Northgate... And is of þe bochouse of saynt Austines of Canterberi. 1675 A. Marvell Let. 24 July in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 342 A new popish Test for Book-Houses. 1908 Yale Lit. Mag. Jan. 165 This is not an ordinary library..but a veritable book-house of the past. 1999 C. Loth Virginia Landmarks Reg. (ed. 4) 8/1 With its numerous outbuildings, including a colonnaded ‘book house’, or library and what was perhaps a chapel, Blenheim is a striking if somewhat naive expression of Romantic Revivalism in central Virginia. < as lemmas |
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