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单词 indian house
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Indian housen.

Brit. /ˌɪndɪən ˈhaʊs/, U.S. /ˌɪndiən ˈhaʊs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Indian adj., house n.1
Etymology: < Indian adj. + house n.1 With sense 1, compare Indian adj. 2; with sense 2, compare Indian adj. 1.
1. A wigwam. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > North American Indian
Indian house1622
wigwam1624
tepee1743
lodge1805
1622 Relation Eng. Plantation Plimoth, New Eng. 26 They found seaven or eight Indian houses, but not lately inhabited.
1634 Relation Ld. Baltimore's Plantation (1865) 17 The Indian houses are all built heere in a long halfe Ouall.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 92 In ranging the woods found several Indian-houses, their fires being just out, but no Indians.
1750 T. Walker Jrnl. 31 Mar. 43 In the fork between Holstons and the North River, are five Indian Houses built with loggs and covered with Bark.
1859 J. G. Palfrey Hist. New Eng. I. i. 26 The wigwam or Indian house, of a circular or oval shape, was made of bark or mats laid over a framework of branches of trees.
1901 Sunday Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 26 Feb. 32/3 Finally the boys came to an open space, where there were many wigwams, or Indian houses.
1984 C. Edwards Savage Innocence 58 I must try to hide in the wigwam... Once he sees a lone Indian house he will turn and go back the way he came.
2. A shop selling goods made in or imported from South Asia. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
1692 T. Southerne Wives Excuse iv. i. 38 My Bohe..Cost me Ten Pound a Pound, but I have a Tea..that I think I was very much befriended in, at an Indian House in the City, if you please.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband ii. ii. 20 A jaunt or two in a Hack to an Indian House.
1783 Rowe's Ulysses (new ed.) Epil. 28 There are no Indian Houses to drop in And fancy Stuffs and chuse a pretty Screen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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