单词 | first storey |
释义 | first storeyn. 1. = first floor n. 2. Also in extended use. Now North American. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > ground floor first storeyc1384 first floor1549 ground floor1601 ground-story1657 terreno1740 rez-de-chaussée1802 street floor1813 street level1830 downstairs1841 ground-flat1865 c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 231 All the Fronntte..of Storyes of heygh, the fyrst story of xij fote of heygh, te ij of x fote, te thryd of viij fote. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course xi. f. 116v He placed below, and in the first storie, many engines to shoote great and heauie stones; in the middle storie, there were other engines shooting long and sharpe shot. 1659 J. Evelyn Let. 3 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) I. 366 One handsome Pavilion, containing a Refectory, Library,..This the first story... In the 2d should be a faire Lodging chamber. 1670 Inquest after Blood 8 The Bricklayer however did averr upon oath that the Wall was three brick thick in the Cellar, two bricks in the first Story, in the rest a brick and a half. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 5 The Ante-Chamber, Hall, and other Rooms of the first Story. 1733 R. Seymour Stow's Survey of London I. ii. v. 352 The first Storey, fronting the Street, is adorned with Pilasters, Entablature and Pediment of the Dorick Order. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) at Story In the United States the floor next the ground is the first story. 1897 F. C. Moore How to build Home 39 The ceilings of summer houses should be not less than eleven feet for the first story. 1938 Amer. Home June 28/2 White siding walls ship-lapped in cedar on the first story and contrastingly laid with flush redwood sheathing on the upper story. 2001 Old-house Jrnl. July 82/1 Putting a later stamp on the house are the ‘ribbons’ of three or four vertically oriented windows in the first storey. 2. = first floor n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > upper floors first floor1445 plancher1523 first storey1686 piano nobile1715 mezzaninec1720 entresol1726 attic storey1738 upstairs1781 attic1818 second floor1821 third floor1908 upper1968 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 127 They unbound me, and bid me open our Chamber-Door; which was in the first Story [Fr. C'étoit un prémier étage]. 1694 A. Boyer Compl. French-master ii. 214 Here's a Chamber to be let in the first story [Fr. au premier étage]. 1705 Philos. Trans. Abridg'd 1665–1700 (Royal Soc.) 2 629 The Ground or lowermost Story, 12 Foot from the Ground, is used only for a Ware House, &c. To settle the First Story upon strong Pillars..would make that Story fitter for drying of Corn. 1762 London Chron. 3–6 Apr. 323/3 A house... Consisting, on the Ground Floor, of a Hall and three Parlours; on the first Story, three Bed Chambers, a Dressing Room, a Study, and other convenient Rooms. 1825 Hist. Paris from Earliest Period to Present Day II. viii. 506 The high price of the ground induced Lenoir le Remain..to place the ball room at the first storey, that the ground floor might be formed into shops. 1850 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 5) I. 447 In domestic and palatial architecture the stories are thus enumerated from the lowest upwards. Basement or underground story... Ground story or ground-floor... First-story... Then follow second, third, and so on. 1909 S. Hedin Trans-Himalaya I. i. 15 From the great hall in the middle of the house a staircase leads to the first storey. 2000 D. Hawkes in K. Steemers & S. Yannas Archit., City, Environment (Proc. PLEA 2000) 5/2 A timber-clad first storey hovers above the brick-built ground floor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384 |
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