| 单词 | pepper-castor pattern |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspepper-castor pattern a. = pepperbox n. 2a. Frequently attributive, as pepper-castor pattern, pepper-castor tower. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > turret > of specific shape roundel1633 pepperbox1763 rounder1774 pepperpot1838 pepper castor1855 1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says 120 The old-fashioned country meeting-house, with a ‘steeple’, either of the extinguisher or pepper-castor pattern. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany x. 174 That hideous tower with the pepper-caster on the top. 1963 M. Barnard Hist. Austral. vii. 123 Not far away was the first church, St Phillip's, with its pepper-castor tower. < as lemmas |
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