| 单词 | country box |
| 释义 | > as lemmascountry box 29. A house; esp. a country house, typically owned or occupied in addition to a principal home in the city. Frequently in country box. Now rare and somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > villa or country house > small box1696 country box1722 villakin1730 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 ranch1807 bower1810 ranch house1859 villino?1863 dacha1896 1696 W. Mountague Delights Holland 41 'Tis a very pretty well-built (tho' old) Box, (as we call small Seats in England) with good Gardens, tho' not now very well kept. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 445 And purchases his country box. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. iii. 107 His father retired from business..to a little convenient box, at Binfield. 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Aug. 405 Rawlinson, who..has a box and some land here. 1882 Art Amateur June 10/2 Stripping the town house to make pleasantly habitable the country ‘box’,. 1978 M. Gee Plumb 227 Even in this country box there was a lovely soaring. country box country box n. now rare a small country house; see box n.2 29. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > villa or country house > small box1696 country box1722 villakin1730 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 ranch1807 bower1810 ranch house1859 villino?1863 dacha1896 1722 S. Croxall tr. Æsop Fables xlviii. 87 I should not chuse to have my little Country Box situated in the Neighbourhood of a Grandee. 1757 R. Lloyd (title) Cit's country box. 1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 67 Nor country-box was soul's domain! 2009 G. Foley My Wicked Marquess 138 He does enjoy a bit of fishing and shooting now and then, but only if he's invited to someone else's country box. < as lemmas |
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