单词 | paternal roof |
释义 | > as lemmaspaternal roof paternal roof n. the home of a person's father. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > ancestral home paternal roof1720 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxii. 626 Ev'n from his own paternal Roof expell'd, Some Stranger plows his patrimonial Field. 1845 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (new ed.) xliii. 475 Longing earnestly for a temporary sanctuary under his friend's paternal roof. 1902 J. Corbin Amer. at Oxf. 17 All this brings recollections of the paternal roof, where tardiness at breakfast meant the loss of dessert. 1992 Current Digest Post-Soviet Press (Nexis) 11 Mar. 27 Some..ran away from children's homes, some..from under a paternal roof that proved to be worse than a stranger's. < as lemmas |
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