单词 | indian house |
释义 | Indian housen. 1. A wigwam. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1622 |
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