| 单词 | cottage home |
| 释义 | > as lemmascottage home cottage home n. (a) a home in the form of a cottage; (b) British a charitable institution providing accommodation in the form of cottages (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > building devoted to charitable object charity-house1758 institution1792 cottage home1797 institute1829 warehouse1970 1797 R. Southey Poems 7 The journey o'er and every peril past Beholds his little cottage-home at last. 1828 F. D. Hemans Homes of Eng. in Records of Woman (ed. 2) 171 The Cottage Homes of England! By thousands on her plains. 1868 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Feb. 6/4 I send herewith a copy of the memorandum and articles of association of a society recently incorporated under the name of ‘Evans's Cottage Homes’. The object of the association is the management of a charity..for providing cottage homes and annuities for ladies of reduced fortunes. 1882 S. A. Barnett in H. Barnett Canon S. A. B. (1918) I. xi. 124 Mrs. Barnett..opened a Cottage Home in which they spend three months before going into service. 1904 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 252 These tenants might have bought a good farm for less than the clerk in the city would pay for his cottage home. 1916 Amer. Med. July 542/1 A cottage home for the treatment of valvular disease in boys. 2000 G. Towers Shelter is not Enough 19 Everywhere else the new housing was in the form of cottage homes on greenfield ex-urban sites. 2015 J. Cooper Protestant Orphan Society 213 In July 1908, Webb visited Sunnyside Home, the DPOS affiliated cottage home in Kilternan. < as lemmas |
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