释义 |
ˈupfloor [ad. OE. upflór: up- 1.] A triforium. (In quot. 1922, arch. in sense ‘an upper floor’.) This special application is derived from the use of the word with reference to the church at Glastonbury in the O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1083.
1879A. Taylor Guienne 12 Our ancestors..gave the triforium (then lately devised) the vernacular English name of ‘upfloor’. 1912C. E. Power Eng. Mediæv. Archit. I. 20 The ‘triforium chamber’ or ‘up-floor’ of monastic writers. 1922Joyce Ulysses 381 Sir Leopold heard on the up⁓floor cry on high and he wondered what cry that it was whether of child or woman. |