| 单词 | earthen-roofed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearthen-roofed In parasynthetic compounds (in senses 2 and 4), as earthen-floored, earthen minded, earthen-roofed, earthen-walled, etc. Cf. earth n.1 Compounds 7. ΚΠ 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 40 The earthen minded man cannot conceaue So haughtie glorie in disglorie and dole. 1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. i. iv. 163 [Silk-worms] are kept and fed in the same earthen floored Rooms, where in the poor People live and spin. 1847 Jrnl. Agric. July 14 A wooden or earthen walled cottage. 1863 T. Laurie Morning on Mountains iii. 36 A long, earthen-roofed structure, half of it a dwelling house. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 15 Far from a man..be so rash and earthen-hearted a humility. 1895 F. A. Ober Young Folks Hist. Mexico ii. 30 A scattered line of earthen-walled houses and temples. 1918 E. Krishnamurti in G. Slater Some South-Indian Villages 100 There are thirty houses in the caste village; three are terraced, none tiled, one earthen-roofed, all the rest thatched. 1960 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 104 147/1 The cooking room or separate kitchen hut, earthen-floored, is furnished with one hearth. 1991 K. Schwenke Successful Small-scale Farming (ed. 2) iv. 42/2 There are two kinds of silo presently in use: the vertical silo,..and the horizontal silo (made of wood or concrete or, in a pinch, earthen-sided). 2003 R. Vance Secret Sights 40/1 The northern boundary of the Pale, the earthen-banked defence that ran from Dundalk to Dalkey during the 14th and 15th centuries. < as lemmas |
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