单词 | dining room |
释义 | dining roomn. 1. The room in a house, hotel, etc., in which meals are eaten; (sometimes) spec. a room used for formal dinners in a private institution and in some hotels and restaurants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > dining-room parlourc1384 cenaclea1400 triclinec1440 dining room?1576 dining hall1598 eating-room1613 triclinium1646 supper rooma1661 coffee-room1712 breakfast-room1732 salle-à-manger1762 mess-room1774 refreshment room1785 breakfast-parlour1802 noon-hall1828 dinner room1853 Speisesaal1871 diner1907 dinette1920 breakfast-nook1931 brunch bar1940 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > dining room cenaclea1400 triclinec1440 parlour1526 dining room?1576 dining hall1598 eating-room1613 triclinium1646 supper rooma1661 coffee-room1712 salle-à-manger1762 mess-room1774 sala1774 noon-hall1828 dinner room1853 Speisesaal1871 diner1907 dinette1920 ?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. b.iii In the dyning roome he founde maister Edwarde Gryuell. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 481 The fashion came vp at Rome, that our dames had their beds couered all ouer with siluer, yea, and some dining rooms [L. triclinia] with tables laid with the same. 1661 A. Cowley Proposition Advancem. Exper. Philos. 23 A large and pleasant Dining-Room within the Hall for the Professors to eat in. 1749 D. Garrick Let. 21 Oct. in Lett. (1963) I. 135 The Picture..is a very great Ornament to our dining Room. 1780 G. White Jrnl. 22 June (1970) xiii. 173 Lighted a fire in the dining room. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 129 The dark-wainscoted dining-room, with its noble fireplace of gigantic dimensions. 1969 R. D. Pharr Bk. of Numbers (1970) ii. 12 There had been a street-level taproom with four private dining rooms upstairs. 2017 A. Alsaid North of Happy xxvi. 242 I follow her out of the kitchen and into the empty dining room. ΚΠ 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 67 Dining-room, the mouth. Compounds C1. a. As a general modifier with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of the dining room; for use in the dining room’. ΚΠ 1658 T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. cviiv To tie up the Dog of your Censures with the halter of Discretion at the Dining-room door of your Affection. 1702 S. Sewall Diary 15 Sept. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1879) 5th Ser. VI. 65 Mr. Nehemiah Walter marries Mr. Sam Sewall and Mrs. Rebekah Dudley, in the Dining Room Chamber about 8. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 53 Five rivals..set upon him at once, and drove him up stairs to the dining-room door. 1828 H. G. Lewis Let. 14 Oct. in J. Constable Corr. (1966) IV. 75 The only convenient place to fix the column, will be within the fence, before the old dining room windows. 1899 K. Chopin Awakening i. 3 Madame Lebrun was..giving..directions in an equally high voice to a dining-room servant whenever she got outside. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 32/1 Embroidered dining-room linens fit in with the bright colors of spring and summer, and give a gay note to the dining-room or breakfast nook. 1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant (1983) iii. 72 She was slouched in the dining room entranceway, holding a lit cigarette. 2006 Times Mag. 17 June 10/3 I ended up in a theological residence where the dining room conversation was way better than at any normal residence. b. spec. Designating the table and chairs used in a dining room, as in dining room chair, dining room furniture, dining room set, dining room table. ΚΠ 1734 R. Laurence Indispensible Obligation of Ministring iii. 196 Furnish your Dining-Room Table with Stones for Meat, and fine Dust for Drink. 1772 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 5 Aug. 7/2 Mahogany dining-room chairs. 1868 C. Dickens Let. 11 Feb. (2002) XII. 49 To re-cover, with red leather, all the dining-room chairs. 1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Oct. 358/1 The dining-room table is groaning with good things. 1925 Today's Housewife Feb. 7/1 She is all too likely to buy a standardized dining-room set, and then wish later that she had bought a gate-leg table or a drop-leaf table and chairs. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 67/2 It is probably the revamped dining room furniture which is of the most interest. 2004 Daily Tel. 15 Sept. 3/2 The furniture includes a set of 12 ‘Jacobethan’ dining room chairs made by John Williams of Exeter in 1814. 2019 A. Ridker Altruists ii. 24 Ethan, fifteen years old, sitting nervously across from Arthur and Francine at the dining room table. c. slang. Extended use of dining room chairs and dining room furniture, designating the teeth. Cf. sense 2, dining room lumber n. Now rare. ΚΠ 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 118 Mealy-mouthed, backwardness of speech; one who talks as if he held a spoonful of flour 'twixt his dining-room chairs. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 31/2 Dining room furniture, the teeth. d. dining room lumber n. U.S. slang (now rare) a toothpick. ΚΠ 1936 Amer. Speech 11 43 Dining room lumber, toothpick. 1993 M. Gosnell Zero 3 Bravo (1994) 163 It ain't possible a club like this ain't got dining room lumber! ΚΠ 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 139 Dining-room-post is a mode of stealing by a man, who, pretending to be the Postman, goes to lodging-houses under the pretence of having letters for the lodgers. These sham letters being sent up for the postage, which he seems to wait for, as soon as he is left alone, he goes into the first room which he finds open, and whips off with him whatever he can lay hold of. 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 139 Dining-Room Jump. This is executed by four men, one of whom dressed as a Gentleman pretends to want lodgings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < |
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