单词 | hovel-house |
释义 | > as lemmashovel-house ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > niche > canopied habitaclec1384 tabernaclec1384 housing1463 hovel1463 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 19 I wil that the ymage of oure lady..be set vp ageyn the peleer..and a hovel with pleyn sydes comyng down to the baas. 1838 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 2) 67 Hovel,..a tabernacle, or niche for a statue. 1879 E. Waterton Pietas Mariana 262 Tabernacles were canopied niches. In ancient contracts they were also called maisons, habitacles, hovels, and howsings. 1888 Archit. Jrnl. 241 Thirty-six ‘weepers’ standing in niches under simple canopies, or, as they were called, ‘hovels’. < as lemmas |
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