单词 | outoffice |
释义 | outofficen. A separate building serving as an office for a manor house, farmhouse, etc.; an outbuilding. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > outhouse(s) > [noun] little houseOE outhouse1301 housingc1384 house of officec1405 officesa1422 easement?a1425 shed1457 outhousing1583 outbuilding1600 outroom1602 outoffice1630 office-house1632 out-hut1856 shedding1883 nushnik1945 1630 P. Massinger Renegado ii. vi. sig. E4v There are so many lobbies, Out offices, and disputations heere Behind these Turkish hangings. a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) ii. 35 Yet in som out-office see them chear'd Want nothinge that the cloyster can affoord. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 233 While the Cook was sent to the Out-offices to raise the Men. 1793 J. O'Keeffe World in Village iii. i. 32 Enter Willows, from an out-office, carrying a small sack full, which he immediately lays down. 1847 R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings China ii. 17 A stream..descending with great fury upon the roof of one of his out-offices, carried away a great part of it. 1892 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 55 663 Together with the kitchens, out-offices, store-rooms, and gardens. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 666 Pantry, buttery, larder, refrigerator, outoffices, coal and wood cellarage with winebin. 1990 Country Life 24 May 90 (advt.) A useful range of outoffices including 7 stables, tack room, haybarn, garages, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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