| 单词 | dead-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈdead-house ˈdead-house n. a building or room in which dead bodies are kept for a time, a mortuary; (see also sense A. 18b above). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > mortuary lich-housec1200 coffin-house1611 dead-house1812 dead-room1835 funeral house1850 mortuary1864 hearse-house1870 slumber room1936 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 134 Many carioles..passed our dwelling loaded with the dead..to a place, emphatically, called the ‘dead-house’. 1833 Edinb. Rev. 57 348 The keeper of the dead-house. 1850 Ecclesiologist 10 339 To the right of the lich-gate we have placed the ‘Dead-House’. < as lemmas |
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