| 单词 | governor's mansion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgovernor's mansion a. Originally: the chief residence of a lord, the capital messuage of a manor, a manor house. Later: any large or stately residence; (U.S.) the residence of the president or a state governor (frequently in governor's mansion). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > manor house hallc1000 boroughc1175 court1297 manorc1300 palacec1300 mansion1375 placea1387 manor-place1392 chemis1408 head-place1463 mansion place1473 manse1490 court-hall1552 manery1563 manor house1575 seat1607 country seat1615 great house1623 mansion house1651 country house1664 manor-seata1667 place-house1675 mansion-seat1697 hall-house1702 big house1753 ha'-house1814 manoir1830 manor hall1840 yashiki1863 seigneury1895 stately home1934 stately2009 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial palacec1300 dome1553 residencea1616 great house1623 mansion house1651 palazzo1657 châteauc1739 mansion1815 palacio1839 haveli1871 puri1935 1375 in A. H. Cooke Early Hist. Mapledurham (1925) 204 (MED) The thridde Parte of the Mansione of the seide manere of Mapulderham. 1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 190/2 Þe mansioune of blaksawling & four acris of lande Immediately liand to þe said mansioune. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxiv. sig. i.ii Whiche place somtyme, was the kynges mansyon Translated to an abbay, by her commaundyment. 1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. iii If it happen me to decesse at my mansion called Halstedys. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 317 The case of a treble hoboy was a mansion for him a Court. View more context for this quotation a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §41 44 A fair dwelling house, which he maketh his mansion. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 199 Mansion (Mansio) is in our law most commonly taken for the chief messuage..of the Lord of a Mannor, the Mannor house where he doth most remain. 1720 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1901) XVI. 351 I Give..unto my beloved Daughter..my manshon Where I now dwell. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 171 It was the mansion, or manor-place of the Barony of Philorth. 1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 112 The lordly Mansion of its pride Is stripped. 1846 J. K. Polk Diary 21 July (1929) 128 He had not been in my office or at the President's mansion for many weeks. 1865 Dublin Univ. Mag. 65 24/1 The fussy mistress of the ‘mansion’..as in Brighton they call a lodging house. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Oct. 1/1 What are called mansions—a mansion is a house with a back staircase—are a drug in the market. 1940 W. V. T. Clark Ox-bow Incident ii. 110 On the west edge of town he'd built a white, wooden mansion, with pillars like a Southern plantation home, and big grounds around it, fenced with white picket fence. 1970 M. Angelou I know why Caged Bird Sings xvii. 115 She lived in a big mansion with a thousand servants. 1993 N.Y. Times 17 Jan. i18/3 Mr. Clinton was more upbeat this afternoon as he watched movers load the remaining boxes in the nearly empty Governor's Mansion on an 18-wheel van. < as lemmas |
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