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单词 tukul
释义 tukul|ˈtʊkəl|
Also tukal, tukl.
[Native name.]
In Ethiopia and some adjacent regions: a dwelling shaped like a beehive, and constructed with a thatched roof.
1901H. Vivian Abyssinia vii. 174 The capital is rather a camp than a town, and there is no particular trouble in rooting up a tukul and planting it elsewhere.1920Blackw. Mag. Nov. 675/2 The tukls were strongly built of rough stone.1936E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia v. 188 The office was a small, lightless tukal a hundred yards or so off the road.1958Spectator 18 July 111/1, I would not like my daughter to become the mistress of a kraal or a tukl.1971Daily Tel. 12 June 11/1 Rough compounds of mushroom-like tukals—round, mud-walled thatched peasant huts.1981E. North Dames i. 5 Thatched huts known as tukuls, some now with corrugated roofs.
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