单词 | looking place |
释义 | > as lemmaslooking place C1. General attributive, esp. in looking place. ΚΠ 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 281v Order me a lokyng place in the play. a1555 J. Bradford Hurte of hering Masse (?1561) sig. B.iiiiv Take eate..but ye masse is a loking matter, pepe, see, loke stoupe downe before. &c. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iv. ii. 48 But yet my toyl May be rewarded with a looking while. 1677 Counterfeit Bridegroom v. iii. 55 I'le give thee a looking and a thinking time, that is but fair. 1830 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 16 Polite Lit. 83 If windows afforded a looking-place to the fox, why might they not also clap, without losing their claims to antiquity? 1882 ‘Shway Yoe’ Burman I. xvi. 218 The suburb of Rangoon called Kemindine (‘the looking-post’). 1902 Rev. of Reviews 10 Apr. 433/2 This little contrivance I will call a looking machine..transforms the twin images on this bit of pasteboard called a stereograph into real space before my eyes. 1995 Australian (Nexis) 18 Aug. You could..exhibit your complete works..in a gallery containing nothing more than a few tables and chairs, thus converting a looking place into a reading room. < as lemmas |
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