单词 | veranda |
释义 | verandan. a. An open portico or light roofed gallery extending along the front (and occasionally other sides) of a dwelling or other building, frequently having a front of latticework, and erected chiefly as a protection or shelter from the sun or rain. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > verandah veranda1711 piazza1724 stoop1755 stoep1797 porch1819 lanai1823 pial1869 screen porch1889 pendopo1927 sleep-out1941 α. β. 1800 W. Hunter in Asiatick Researches 6 75 All around is a wide verandah, containing ranges of cells.1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress V. 208 Emma..advanced to meet Lady Castelton as she quitted her chair at the verandah.1859 L. Oliphant China & Japan II. ix. 198 The building itself was in the form of a shed, with very deep verandahs.1879 R. H. Elliot Written on their Foreheads II. 2 After dinner we will sit in the verandah.γ. 1750 Jrnl. Boscawen's Voy. Bombay 45 When we got to the Prince's, he was sitting in a miserable little Virando or Piazza.1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 219 Hence people get out into the virando's and elsewhere for breath.1793 W. Hodges Trav. India vii. 146 The space between the angle rooms are viranders, or open porticoes, to sit in during the evenings.1818 Lady Morgan France (ed. 3) II. 5 The pretty grisettes..were..not unconscious..of the glasses pointed from the virandas of Tortoni's or Hardy's cafés.1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 184 When a slightly projecting roof, or a viranda, shadows..the whole front of a house.1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 174 There are virandas and balconies..to almost every house.δ. 1754–73 E. Ives Voy. India i. iii. 45 Near each of the vorandas, there is a square room with a pillar in the middle.1784 in Archaeologia 7 287 A feerandah, or piazza, which extends from east to west sixty feet.1786 Archaeologia 8 254 The other gate leads to what in this country [India] is called a veranda or feranda, which is a kind of piazza, or landing place.1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Suppl. Chron. 128/2 His Lordship is supposed to be seated in the east verunda of the government-house.1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. 46 Vestibules, varhandahs,..palanquins and punkahs.1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India 20 The Building is very ancient, two Story high, and has..two large Verandas or Piazzas. 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies vi. 84 A pent-house or shed, that forms what is called in the Portugueze Lingua-franca Verandas, either round, or on particular sides of the house. 1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 39 These boats..are, however, extremely commodious, having in the center a small verander, or open portico. 1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xliv The Captain was walking up and down the veranda of a country tavern in Massachusetts while the coach changed horses. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxvii. 325 A crowd of women..take their stand..in the veranda of a temple. Π 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 33/2 He was not in the room I saw him in yesterday; but in a little room of Veranda. c. Australian and New Zealand. A roof-like structure built along the side of a building, esp. one built over the pavement outside business premises. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] > outdoors corridorc1660 veranda1873 sottoportico1909 breezeway1931 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > portico or arcade alurec1325 alley1363 gallerya1500 aluring1501 cloisterc1540 pawn1548 stoa1603 portico1607 row1610 porticus1617 corridor1620 piazza1642 xystus1664 arcade1731 veranda1873 1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. I. 418 The verandah is a kind of open exchange,—some place on the street pavement apparently selected by chance, on which the dealers in mining shares do congregate. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 489/1 Verandahs..are an architectural feature..of most City shops, where they render the broad side-walks an almost continuous arcade. ‘Under the Verandah’ has acquired the meaning, ‘where city men most do congregate’. 1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 45 The house is a very old house. Once it was a grocer's shop..but..the old man couldn't get another shopkeeper to take it. So he had the verandah roof pulled down, and the front altered. 1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 80 An untidy collection of bicycles and boys in the shade of a shop verandah. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as veranda-chair, veranda pillar, veranda-post, etc.; veranda-builder, veranda-like adj. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > other supporting members studeOE bracket1574 prick post1587 cantilever?1677 stud piece1799 squinch1840 main couple1842 veranda pillar1852 porch post1871 mushroom1907 poupou1921 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs farthingale chair1552 side chair1582 high chair1609 scroll chair1614 Turkey chair1683 curule chair1695 reading chair1745 rush-bottom1754 conversation-chair1793 Windsor tub1800 Trafalgar chair1808 beehive-chair1816 nursing chair1826 Hitchcockc1828 toilet seat1829 kangaroo1834 prie-dieu1838 tub-chair1839 barrel-chair1850 Cromwell chair1868 office chair1874 swivel-chair1885 steamer-chair1886 suggan chair1888 lawn chair1895 saddle seat1895 Bombay chair1896 veranda-chair1902 X chair1904 Yorkshire chair1906 three legs and a swinger1916 saddlebag1919 riempie stool1933 gaspipe chair1934 slipper chair1938 Eames chair1946 contour chair1948 sling-back1948 sling chair1957 booster chair1960 booster seat1967 beanbag1969 sack chair1970 papasan1980 Muskoka chair1987 1852 Life in Bombay 17 A support to a light verandah~like roof. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Verandah-builder, a maker of wire or wood lattice-work. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 204 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV There is no..climbing plant that can excel this as a covering for veranda pillars. 1892 J. Murdoch From Austral. & Japan vi. 186 She clasped the verandah post..to keep her from falling in a swoon. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 196 Cheyne, in a verandah-room,..toiled along wearily from day to day. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 June 437/2 Miss Tresscott..sought to show her disapproval..by turning her veranda-chair with its back to the gay scene. 1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 12/6 (advt.) Household furniture... It includes:—Verandah chairs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1711 |
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