单词 | colonial-style |
释义 | > as lemmascolonial-style colonial-style adj. of a style characteristic of or associated with the period during which a country was governed by a colonial power (cf. sense A. 4b). ΚΠ 1883 in F. T. Camp Draftsman's Man. (new ed.) 44 (advt.) Containing 44 plates of Queen Anne and colonial style villas and cottages. 1985 M. Atwood Handmaid's Tale (1986) xvi. 93 The large white canopy of Serena Joy's outsized colonial-style four-poster bed, suspended like a sagging cloud above us. 2009 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 Aug. 2 The morphing of their sprawling elegant colonial style mansions into sleek 21st century skyscrapers..suggests that a new lifestyle has arrived. < as lemmas |
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