单词 | sunken storey |
释义 | > as lemmassunken storey sunken storey n. a storey of a building below ground level; a basement. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > below ground level basement1730 sunk storey1769 below stairs1771 sunken storey1791 1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Postscr. i. xxiii. 319 I leave a round hole, say 4 inches in diameter, passing through the brick-work into the sunken story below. 1860 Illustr. London News 25 Feb. 187/3 Unless the window be on the sunken story. 1906 K. Tynan Story of Bawn 205 I saw now that there was a sunken storey with a sort of area that ran all round the house. 1998 B. Cherry Pevsner's London 4: North 272 The building ingeniously extends N with two sunken storeys below a lawn on a level with the S cloister. < as lemmas |
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