单词 | dark house |
释义 | > as lemmasdark house ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement > for madman dark housec1225 darkrooma1616 c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) l. 218 Dreihen hire into darc [c1225 Bodl. dorc] hus. ?1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. viii. f. 109 He..was offended with Theagenes, by and by laid him in Irons, and tormented him with Honger and Stripes, beinge inclosed in a darke house. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 387 Loue is meerely a madnesse, and..deserues as wel a darke house, and a whip, as madmen do. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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