英语词汇“cabmen's shelter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cabmen's shelter n. (also cabman's shelter) a small wooden hut serving as a shelter or cafe for cab drivers; cf. cab shelter n. at cab n.² Compounds 2.Introduced in the second half of the 19th cent., most cabmen's shelters were positioned on the public highway owing to laws forbidding cabmen to leave their vehicles unattended, and were no larger in size than a horse and carriage. Some surviving shelters (mostly in London) remain open exclusively for use by licensed taxi drivers.

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1862 Manch. Courier 15 Mar. 9/2 A very neat and comfortable structure..called ‘St. Saviour's Cabmen's Shelter’... The shelter is a neat building of wood, about 9 feet square, fitted inside with benches running round three sides.

1875 Dundee Courier & Argos 8 Feb. The first London cabmen's shelter was opened at St. John's Wood on Saturday by the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses xvi. [Eumaeus] 577 Mr. Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman's shelter, an unpretentious wooden structure.

2017 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 July a1 Mr. Walsh..was having a cup of tea with fellow cabdrivers outside a small green wooden hut near Buckingham Palace, one of 13 remaining ‘cabmen's shelters’ dating from the days when cabs were still horse-drawn coaches.

单词	cabmen's shelter
释义	> as lemmas cabmen's shelter cabmen's shelter n. (also cabman's shelter) a small wooden hut serving as a shelter or cafe for cab drivers; cf. cab shelter n. at cab n.² Compounds 2.Introduced in the second half of the 19th cent., most cabmen's shelters were positioned on the public highway owing to laws forbidding cabmen to leave their vehicles unattended, and were no larger in size than a horse and carriage. Some surviving shelters (mostly in London) remain open exclusively for use by licensed taxi drivers. ΚΠ 1862 Manch. Courier 15 Mar. 9/2 A very neat and comfortable structure..called ‘St. Saviour's Cabmen's Shelter’... The shelter is a neat building of wood, about 9 feet square, fitted inside with benches running round three sides. 1875 Dundee Courier & Argos 8 Feb. The first London cabmen's shelter was opened at St. John's Wood on Saturday by the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses xvi. [Eumaeus] 577 Mr. Bloom and Stephen entered the cabman's shelter, an unpretentious wooden structure. 2017 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 July a1 Mr. Walsh..was having a cup of tea with fellow cabdrivers outside a small green wooden hut near Buckingham Palace, one of 13 remaining ‘cabmen's shelters’ dating from the days when cabs were still horse-drawn coaches. extracted from cabmann. < as lemmas
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