单词 | balcony |
释义 | balconyn. 1. A kind of platform projecting from the wall of a house or room, supported by pillars, brackets, or consoles, and enclosed by a balustrade. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > balcony gallery1509 balcony1618 balcon1635 pergolaa1641 gazebo1843 mashrabiyya1850 basket-balcony1866 balconette1876 sun deck1876 1618 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Sat. 223 It was properly a balcone, and so the building it self did jetty out. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 76 Then Pleasure came, who liking not the fashion, Began to make Balcones, Terraces. 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iii. iv. 159 Squinting up at Windowes and Belconies. 1735 J. Swift Clever Tom Clinch in Wks. II. 298 The Maids to the Doors and the Balconies ran, And said, lack-a-day! he's a proper young Man. 1783 W. Cowper John Gilpin 142 At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xi. 6 And like so many Venuses of Titian's..They look when leaning over the balcony, Or stepping from out a picture by Giorgione. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Mariana in South in Poems (new ed.) 23 Backward the latticeblind she flung, And leaned upon the balcony. 1845 R. Browning Flight of Duchess xv, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 16/1 To breathe the fresh air from the balcony. 2. The similar structure at the stern of large ships. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > balcony or gallery at stern or quarter gallery1627 balcony1666 quarter-gallery1740 stern-gallery1842 stern-walk1867 1666 S. Pepys Diary 2 Nov. (1972) VII. 352 A very good ship, but with galleries quite round the Sterne to walk in, as a Balcone. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 94 Balcony, the gallery in the stern of large ships. 3. In theatres: †(a) (formerly) a stage-box; (b) (now generally) the open part above the dress circle, between that and the ‘gallery.’ In Music Halls and other public buildings, variously applied, according to structure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > balcony or circle upper circle1586 balcony1718 dress circle1812 mezzanine1927 terrace1961 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > box or compartment pew1558 lord's room1592 box1609 private boxa1640 side-box1676 balcony1718 lodge1730 green box1732 stage box1740 loge1768 opera box1789 dress box1795 property box1809 omnibus1840 omnibus box1842 baignoire1873 1718 Rem. Rochester 106 Fairly in public he plays out his Game, Betimes bespeaks Balconies. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 882/2 The three tiers of boxes and the balcony of which the auditorium consists. Compounds attributive, as in balcony-chamber, balcony-door, balcony-window. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window loop1393 shot-windowc1405 gable window1428 batement light1445 church window1458 shot1513 casement1538 dream-hole1559 luket1564 draw window1567 loop-window1574 loophole1591 tower-windowc1593 thorough lights1600 squinch1602 turret window1603 slit1607 close-shuts1615 gutter window1620 street lighta1625 balcony-window1635 clere-story window1679 slip1730 air-loop1758 Venetian1766 Venetian window1775 sidelight1779 lancet window1781 French casement1804 double window1819 couplet1844 spire-light1846 lancet1848 tower-light1848 triplet1849 bar-window1857 pair-light1868 nook window1878 coupled windows1881 three-light1908–9 north-light1919 storm window1933 borrowed light1934 Thermopane1941 storms1952 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others hell1310 summer hall1388 summer parloura1425 paradise1485 fire room1591 garden room1619 ease-room1629 portcullis1631 divan1678 but?1700 sluttery1711 rotunda1737 glass casea1777 dungeon1782 hall of mirrors1789 balcony-chamber1800 showroom1820 mirror room1858 vomitorium1923 mosquito room1925 refuge room1937 quiet room1938 Florida room1968 roomset1980 wet room1982 1635 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons Introd. 70 Tymber for the balconia doores. 1636 Laud in 4th Rep. Com. Hist. MSS. (1874) 153/2 A balconee window and a stair~case. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. vi. 29 Why was the balcony-chamber countermanded? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1618 |
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