单词 | garden house |
释义 | garden housen. 1. a. A small building in a garden, esp. one used for sitting in during fine weather; a summer house. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > summer-house summer house1519 garden house1535 cabinet1579 summer hall1583 kiosk1625 summer room1625 sunny chamber1641 shadow-house1649 alcove1663 root house1755 moss-house?1793 rose temple1848 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > outhouse(s) > [noun] > building or house in garden summer house1519 garden house1535 kiosk1625 summer room1625 sunny chamber1641 shadow-house1649 garden apartment1751 root house1755 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 4 Kings ix. F Whan Ochosias the kinge of Iuda sawe this, he fled by the waie vnto ye garden house. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. iii. f. 9v The pictures of Kalanders dainty garden-house. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 208 This is the body That..did supply thee at thy garden-house In her Imagin'd person. View more context for this quotation 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 8 I was just coming down to the Garden-house. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions xi. 251 As he was sitting alone in a Summer-House as we call it, or Garden-House, as they more properly call it there [i.e. at Leipsick]. 1792 T. Jefferson Let. 16 Dec. in Papers (1990) XXIV. 747 I found the garden house made with a window-door at each end. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. viii. 199 Pointing to an old ruinous garden-house. 1898 Garden 28 May 445/1 A summer or garden house made of rapidly decaying materials like thatch and sapwood boards is hardly ever worth doing. 1907 M. Betham-Edwards Literary Rambles in France i. 4 The garden-house consists of a single room of commodious proportions, overlooking highway, river, wooded islet, and low-lying banks. 1963 Pop. Sci. Apr. 173/1 (heading) A handy garden house you can build. 2010 Arts & Crafts Homes & Revival Summer 22/1 (caption) A shed, garden house, or studio provides space and a focal point for the garden. b. Chiefly U.S. regional (east Midland). An outside toilet, an outhouse, a privy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > specific outside piss-house1665 dunnekin1790 earth closet1863 garden house1888 dunny1924 long drop1963 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Garden-house, a privy; an out-door closet. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 155 Garden-house, a privy, as they are usually built in a garden of a country-house. 1948 Amer. Notes & Queries 8 172 [Virginia] I remember seeing an old Negro..clean a privy on my aunt's farm. He told me he was ‘movin' de honey from de garden house’. 1966 R. Price Generous Man ii. 203 Take me on now to some better place than a garden-house floor and I'll try to improve. 1980 E. Huxley Nellie iii. 41 There was a path leading to a clump of bushes about fifty yards away which concealed the ‘garden house’ with a deep pit latrine. 2. A house situated in or having a garden; (in later use) spec. a suburban villa or country residence in India. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation townhouse1571 garden house1598 corner-house1693 wharf-house1698 notch house1825 suburban1856 twilight home1934 twilight house1971 townhome1976 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 92 Pleasant fieldes..which is now within few yeares made a continual building throughout, of garden houses, and small cottages. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe ii. sig. Dv Because..to be pent vp in a narrow lodging here ith' cittie may offend her health she shall lodge at a garden house of mine in Morefeilds. 1627 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 243 Sir Francis Barrington..is gone out of the Marshalsea to a garden-house in Southwark. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 74 Having an occasion to go over to the bank-side, in a Garden house. 1685 in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1861) I. 139 The whole Council..came to attend the President at the Garden house. 1738 T. Birch Hist. Acct. Life Milton in J. Milton Compl. Wks. I. p. xx He..took an handsome Garden-House in Aldersgate-street. 1772 Ld. Teignmouth Let. 1 Apr. in Mem. Life & Corr. John Lord Teignmouth (1843) I. 34 The place of my residence at present is a garden-house of the Nabob, about four miles distant from Moorshedabad. 1809 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 10 We came to a small bungalo, or garden-house. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 258 Interspersed with the garden-houses, or suburban retreats, of the wealthy merchants. 1896 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 107 Sir Elijah Impey was one of the first to erect a spacious garden-house at Chowringhee. 1916 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 637/2 Because of the fact that the bungalow is primarily a garden-house, it is well to locate it on a large lot, on a slight elevation if possible, and surround it with trees and shrubs. 1970 tr. A. Brecht Polit. Educ. of Arnold Brecht ii. xiii. 77 I persuaded Clara that..we should move into the garden house off the beaten tracks. 2015 Times of India (Nexis) 16 Apr. Raman had identified the garden house in Baruipur where Grass spent the first half of his stay in Kolkata. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 21 The meetest corner for this couent was thought a gardin-house, having round about it many flowers, and within it much deflowring.] 1606 H. Parrot Mous-trap xciii. sig. F Vnto a Garden-house, or vaulting-schoole. 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i. sig. C4 This is no garden house, in my conscience shee went forth with no dishonest intent. a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr3/2 Thou shalt be my Bawd..Thy old wife [shall]..weare a hood, Nay keepe my garden-house. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian v. 113 Seeking for shelter, I naturally ran to the old place of Assignation, the Garden-house. 1721 E. Ward Northern Cuckold 26 She met not, in the Garden-house, Her Confident, to wrong her 'Spouse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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