单词 | women-house |
释义 | > as lemmaswomen-house women-house n. now rare a building inhabited by women; Scottish one serving as accommodation for female workers (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people grass house1557 woman-house1566 fishing-house1676 family house1727 henhouse1785 women-house1792 bachelor('s) hall1841 bachelor-apartment1857 garçonnière1927 bachelor1968 bachelorette1973 pit house1974 squat1975 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 149 At these [bleach-]fields,..there are a number of women not having families, nor residing in families, but in women-houses, so called, erected on purpose. c1865 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) 154 Large central buildings of the public works called ‘women-houses’. a1894 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) ii. 154 The prisonlike incarceration of them in large central buildings of the public works called ‘women-houses’. 1916 W. Churchill Sissano ii. 14 In Sissano the corpses of men and women are buried under the women houses, never under the men houses. < as lemmas |
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