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单词 tin chapel
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tin chapel
d. Applied disparagingly to buildings (esp. Nonconformist churches) made partly of corrugated iron: tin chapel, tabernacle (cf. tabernacle n. 6b), etc. Also, tin town.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [noun]
framec1425
staddlec1563
sided1602
brick house1608
dobe1838
brick1844
adobe1852
shell1852
cinderblock1868
tin chapel1884
brick veneer1885
red brick1892
gambrel1917
weatherboard1925
Terrapin1949
Portakabin1963
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > other types of town
country town1598
post town1635
Residenz1824
garden town1835
Residenzstadt1841
hometown1851
tin town1884
ghost town1894
new town1918
shopping strip1935
twin town1955
society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist > made of corrugated iron
tin chapel1884
1884 Lichfield Diocesan Mag. Jan. 11/2 It was decided to build ‘a little bit of a tin tabernacle’.
1886 Marquess of Bute Let. 17 Apr. in D. H. Blair John Patrick 3rd Marquess of Bute (1921) ix. 154 The persistent wish of my Lord of Argyll to have what he calls an ‘opening’ of the tin temple in August.
1897 E. Edwards Journey through S. Afr. viii. 48 It would not be out of place to refer to Kimberley as a ‘tin’ town.
1919 A. T. Bassett S. Barnabas', Oxf. iv. 36 This was before the ‘tin’ church at Cowley S. John existed.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. vi. 242 That's the Station Refreshment Rooms, a tin place, just opposite.
1934 D. Thomas Let. Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 143 We made a tour of the pubs..drinking to the..destruction of the Tin Bethels.
1937 New Statesman 13 Nov. 802/2 The several designs of late-Victorian tin-chapel in the slums of a northern industrial town.
1962 ‘J. le Carré’ Murder of Quality x. 108 That parson man from the tin tabernacle.
1979 ‘P. O'Connor’ Into Strong City ii. xxix. 103 Being born again had become no longer a derisive tin chapel slogan but a phrase to describe what was happening to me.
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