单词 | death chamber |
释义 | > as lemmasdeath chamber death chamber n. (a) a room in which a person is dying or has died, or is placed after dying; (b) a room in which executions are carried out. ΚΠ 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie i. xiii. 90 Some [on their death-beds] looke frightfully, and fill their death-chamber with shreeks, and clamours. 1795 T. Wilkinson Wandering Patentee II. 8 A church has often been subject to the like dreadful visitation with an allotted death chamber of repose. 1844 C. Ponsonby Border Wardens I. x. 258 The damp sickly smell inseparable from death-chambers and the fast-changing clay. 1903 J. J. McGovern Life & Life-work Pope Leo XIII. i. 26 The events in the death chamber immediately following the Pope's death were of impressive solemnity. 1932 L. E. Lawes 20,000 Years in Sing Sing 1 It is my legal duty to be present physically in the death chamber. But actually I have never seen an execution. 2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard ix. 121 In the death chamber different nooses hung over the trapdoor. < as lemmas |
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