| 释义 |
shotgun house
shotgun houseSouthern US n. A house whose architecture is characterized by several rooms joined in a straight line from the front to the back.
[From the fact that the shot from a shotgun fired through the front door could go out the back door without encountering any intervening obstacles.]shotgun house
shotgun house(chiefly Southern United States slang) A one-story house in which each room is in a straight alignment with the others, connected by a continuous hallway running from the front to the back of the residence. When our whole family goes to stay in my grandmother's shotgun house in New Orleans, it always feels like we're all right on top of one another.See also: house, shotgunshotgun house
shotgun houseBuilt primarily in the rural southern regions of the United States from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, a one- or one-and-a-half-story house (commonly supported on short piers), one room wide and several rooms deep, with all rooms and their doors in a straight line perpendicular to the street; a narrow gable front with a porch, and often with a similar porch at the rear. |