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单词 by-corner
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by-cornern.

/ˈbʌɪˌkɔːnə/
Etymology: < by- comb. form 2c(a)(i) + corner n.1
An odd or out-of-the-way corner.
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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.
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