| 释义 |
ˈsummer-ˌhouse
[Cf. WFris. simmerhûs, MDu. somerhuys (Du. zomerhuis), MHG. sum(m)erhaus (G. sommerhaus).]
1. A summer residence in the country. Now rare.
1{ddd} Cust. of Newington by Sittingbourne in Cowel's Interpr. (1701), Homines quoque de walda debent unam domum æstivalem quæ Anglice dicitur Sumer-hus invenire, aut viginti solidos dare. 1382Wyclif Amos iii. 15 Y shal smyte the wyntyr hous with the somer hous [Vulg. domo æstiva]. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 164, I had rather liue With Cheese and Garlick in a Windmill farre, Than feede on Cates, and haue him talke to me, In any Summer-House in Christendome. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 50 The Doctor making onelie a Summer-House of it. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xii. 453/1 Summer Houses, Bowers, Places to which the Gentry resort, and abide there dureing the Summer season, for their Recreation and pastime. a1709J. Lister Autobiog. (1842) 35 At present her summer-house is in Highgate. 1797W. Johnston tr. Beckmann's Invent. II. 38 [Privies] are at present considered to be so indispensably necessary, that few summer-houses are constructed without them. 1881Daily News 26 Sept. 5/2 Its very nearness to London perhaps has made it less of an actual residence and more of a holiday summer-house than it would otherwise have been.
fig.1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 82 The wind..slyly slipped back again to his summer-house in the south-west.
2. A building in a garden or park, usually of very simple and often rustic character, designed to provide a cool shady place in the heat of summer.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 347 Lest the sonne in somer do hit harm, Thi somer hous northest & west let wrie. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. 34 b, Frenche Beanes..climeth aloft,..seruyng well for the shadowyng of Herbers and Summer houses. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 389/2 Horti adonidis,..a banketting summer house made of trees, herbs, flowers, &c. 1624Wotton Archit. ii. 100 [Paintings of] Land-schips, and Boscage..in open Tarraces, or in Summer houses. 1721Mortimer Husb. II. 206 Summer-Houses may..be erected at each Corner [of the garden], and made so as to let in the Air on all sides, or to exclude it. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 275 At the end of the terras-walk are two summer-houses. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxvii, One of her gloves lay on the small rustic table in the summer-house. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. vi, There was an old stone summer-house in each angle of that end wall.
†b. An arbour or the like used in connexion with the ‘summer-game’. Obs.
1519Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 103 In quo..horreo..loco adtunc vulgariter dicto Somer-house, prædicta Margareta More,..permansit..jocundam se faciendo in eodem. |