| 单词 | sunday house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSunday house Sunday house n. †(a) a gambling establishment which is open on Sundays (obsolete rare); (b) South African and U.S. regional a second house maintained in a town by people who normally reside in a rural area for use during their visits to attend church (now historical). ΚΠ 1817 Ὁι Ἕλληνες (ed. 3) 141 Sunday Houses. Our moral readers may start at the designation of this department; yet common sense will tell them, that as the Sunday houses are but few, their profits must be the greater. 1876 Cape Argus 19 Oct. 3 Large family residences, which are known in this place as ‘Sunday houses’. 1923 J. Estill in J. F. Dobie Coffee in Gourd (1979) 68 The custom of building Sunday houses originated with the farmer of Gillespie County. 1975 S. Afr. Panorama Sept. 37 In the old days, they were ‘little Sunday houses’ where the farmers stayed when they came into town for ‘Nagmaal’. 1998 N.Y. Times 23 Aug. i. 37/2 They now spend half their time making replicas of century-old German immigrant ‘Sunday houses’. < as lemmas |
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