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单词 upfloor
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upfloorn.

Etymology: < Old English upflór: up- prefix 1a.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈupfloor.
A triforium. (In quot. 1922, archaic in sense ‘an upper floor’.) This special application is derived from the use of the word with reference to the church at Glastonbury in the Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud MS.) anno 1083.
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1879 A. Taylor Guienne 12 Our ancestors..gave the triforium (then lately devised) the vernacular English name of ‘upfloor’.
1912 C. E. Power Eng. Mediaeval Archit. I. 20 The ‘triforium chamber’ or ‘up-floor’ of monastic writers.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 370 Sir Leopold heard on the upfloor cry on high and he wondered what cry that it was whether of child or woman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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