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单词 dining saloon
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dining saloon
a. Designating a room or similar area in a house, hotel, etc., used for dining, as in dining chamber, dining lounge, dining parlour, dining saloon, dining terrace etc. See also dining hall n., dining room n.
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1536 in V. Chinnery Oak Furnit. (1979) 35 Dyninge Parlor.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxii. f. clxixv He sheweth theim a great large dinyng parlour.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 144 To pawne both my plate, & the tapestry of my dining chambers . View more context for this quotation
a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu/1 What a great space there is Betwixt loves dyning Chamber, and his Garret?
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 317 She asked..why I had not been shewn into the dining-parlour.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 169 The dining-parlour..might pass for his only sitting room.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. xv. 146 In his delight in the reverberating mirrors of the dining cabin..he showed himself engagingly a child.
1951 Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 6/2 There is a glass-walled dining terrace which overlooks a rose garden and the river.
1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 231 The small but elegant dining-lounge of this ancient inn is a soothingly civilised place to embark on what can be an elaborate dinner.
2007 D. Court Mother's Courage (2008) viii. 174 When she went into the dining parlour, Eloise came face to face with the rest of Queenie's lodgers.
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dining saloon
b. In full saloon car or carriage: A railway carriage without compartments, furnished more or less luxuriously as a drawing-room or for a specific purpose, as dining saloon, sleeping saloon. Also (U.S.) ‘the main room of a compartment-car or a small subdivision of a sleeping-car’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.).
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage
caravan1821
private car1826
Jim Crow car1835
ladies' car1841
saloon car or carriage1842
palace car1844
ladies' carriage1847
parliamentary carriage1849
parlour car1859
composite carriage1868
Pullman1869
observation car1872
first1873
compo1878
bogie carriage1880
chair-car1880
club car1893
corridor carriage1893
tourist-car1895
birdcage1900
dog box1905
corridor coach1911
vista-dome1945
Stolypin1970
1842 Illustr. London News 18 June 89/1 Previous to the departure from Paddington, the Royal Saloon, the fittings of which are upon a most elegant..scale, were tastefully improved by bouquets.
1850 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 17 June (1950) 243 We had a saloon carriage.
1855 D. K. Clark Railway Machinery 275/1 Saloon carriages may..be planned variously... The business public appear generally to prefer the ordinary partitioned carriage.
1859 First Impressions New World 214 There were four of these [state rooms], besides a general saloon in the middle; but the whole was greatly inferior to the elegance of Mr. Tyson's car on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway.
1886 St. James's Gaz. 16 Oct. 6/2 He stepped lightly from the saloon-car.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 247/1 Saloon carriages are occasionally used, so called because two or more of the ordinary compartments are merged in one.
1891 Harper's Mag. Mar. 581/1 The car at the head of the New York and Chicago Limited was divided..; the two small apartments ‘amidships’, so to speak, were arranged, one as a bath room, and the other as a barber~shop; and then came the more spacious saloon reserved for the smokers.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 19 Sept. 6/2 In the rear of the express was..the saloon in which the distinguished travellers were making their journey... They travelled..to Aberdeen in an ordinary sleeping saloon.
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