单词 | by-corner |
释义 | by-cornern. An odd or out-of-the-way corner. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] > out-of-the-way place out-corner1530 out-place1530 by-corner1567 by-place1580 out-nook1605 by-part1707 by-nook1862 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) v. f. 66v Sinking into blinde Bycorners. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 2 Britain being a by-Corner, out of the Road of the World. 1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. v. 127 Ready money..locked up in iron chests or hid in bye-corners. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance ii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 81 No longer a nuisance existing merely in by-corners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1567 |
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