| 释义 |
first-floor
1. The floor or story of a building next above the ground floor.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iv, This is the gentleman who has taken your first-floor.
2. The floor or story which is built on or just above the ground; a ground floor. Now only U.S.
1663Gerbier Counsel 101 The first Floore of a building should not lye level with the ground. 1860Worcester, First-floor, the basement of a building [U.S.].
3. colloq. The person who occupies the first floor.
1861Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 83 A piano hired in by ‘the first floor’ yesterday.
4. attrib., as first-floor-room, first-floor-window.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop viii, An oval board over the front first-floor window. 1877Black Green Past. iii. (1878) 19 In the first-floor room of a small house in Piccadilly. |