| 单词 | barrack-flat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarrack-flat d. (singular or plural). A large plain building or range of buildings, tenements, or flats in which a number of people are housed; also, any strikingly plain-looking building suggestive of a military barracks. Also attributive as barrack-flat. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments land1456 tenement1681 tenement house1858 barrack1862 mansions1868 apartment house1874 apartment building1883 single-decker1896 block dwellings1899 project1932 apartment block1955 condominium1962 condo1964 multi1973 1862 E. C. Gaskell Let. 23 July (1966) 926 We went to the Hotel de Sévigné, her old town house,..an immense barrack of an old half-fortified house. 1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children III. xix. 215 ‘What a nice little room..’ said Isabel. ‘It's a beastly great barrack,’ said Silverbridge. 1886 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 329 The railway has come close under the walls of the château, while an ugly barrack has sprung up on the other side. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 Oct. 1/3 A feature of German housing which reformers desire to abolish: that is, of the many-storied barrack-flat system. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 716 I dont like being alone in this big barracks of a place. 1956 M. Duggan Immanuel's Land 108 The secret drink, I've heard it said, of old Ignatz, back at the barracks. < as lemmas |
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