单词 | old-built |
释义 | > as lemmasold-built old-built adj. built a long time previously, (also) built in an old style. ΚΠ 1457–8 Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall No. A81.8 (MED) We..haue taken down to þe grounde þe said tenementes with Shoppes, Celers, & Solars which stode þer olde bilded. 1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses ii. 26 And (for ships) enow Sea-circl'd Ithaca containes, both new And old built. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 16 Aug. (1965) I. 253 It is a very large Town, but most part of it old built. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. viii. 150 For an old built sloop, you would not see her equal. View more context for this quotation 1902 Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 5/2 Strype describes it as ‘a large but old-built house’. < as lemmas |
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