| 单词 | back-chamber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasback-chamber (b) esp. Applied to a part of a house or building which lies behind, and is usually subsidiary to the front or main part bearing the name, as back-building, a building behind forming an appendage to a main building, back-chamber, back-drawing-room, back-garden (also transferred and figurative), back-kitchen, back-parlour, back porch, back shed, etc. See also back court n. 1, backhouse n. 1, backyard n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > outhouse(s) > [noun] > types of skilling1389 haghouse1400 hovel1435 back shed1535 cot-house1606 boorachc1660 linhay1695 spring house1755 woodshed1764 cookhouse1802 tool-house1817 shed1855 drive shed1869 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > other kitchens back-kitchen1535 summer kitchen1632 cook-room1707 cellar kitchen1741 milk kitchen1922 eat-in kitchen1955 step saver1967 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > additional or separate part > at rear back-building1535 backhouse1557 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > porch porticeOE porchc1300 back porch1535 prothyrum1600 propylaeum1637 pentastich1656 propylon1830 ramada1869 storm-porch1879 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > room at the back of a house back-chamber1535 back-drawing-room1535 back-parlour1535 back room1592 back1836 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xlii. 1 The chambre that stode ouer agaynst the backbuyldinge. 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice i. sig. C2 I'le meet Thee..in thy Ladies backe lobby. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. lv. 242 In every back-chamber or with-drawing room. 1738 Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. viii. 191 To mend two Pannells in the back Parlour 0–03–06. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xviii. 111 To drink a bottle of wine with my father..in the back parlour. 1784 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 503 She heard a knocking at the back-kitchen door. 1789 G. Washington Diary (1925) IV. 30 A back shed, which seems to be added as the family encreases. 1811 J. Austen Let. 25 Apr. (1995) 183 We were 66..quite enough to fill the Back Drawg room. 1818 J. Keats Let. 24 Mar. (1958) I. 254 To have a sort of Philosophical Back Garden. 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 18 Mar. 50/1 It is true..that nothing can match your back kitchen as a convenience to the servants. 1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 734/1 He was led by the hand into the back porch. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. i. 1 Curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room. 1866 R. M. Ballantyne Lifeboat 5 Mr. Crumps sat in a small back-office. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors liv. 480 He had leaped out of a window upon a back shed. 1878 W. Black Green Pastures iii. 20 The back-parlour of a Ballinascroon public-house. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Hawk 13 Aug. 172/2 Wagner..is ‘buried in the back garden, sir, like a Newfoundland dog’. 1960 R. Williams Border Country i. ii. §6.51 It had a built-on back-kitchen. 1963 Times 16 Jan. 13/1 After cultivating their own back gardens contentedly..for 15 post-war years up to the beginning of 1961, steel-makers the world over are now preoccupied with export problems. < as lemmas |
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