英语词汇“picts' house”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Picts' house n. Scottish Archaeology any of various ancient dwellings in northern Scotland and the Northern and Western Isles, formerly thought to have been built by the Picts, esp. (a) an underground dwelling (cf. weem n.); (b) a circular stone fortified dwelling.

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1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 20 There being several old houses..which to this day are called Picts or Pights Houses.

1711 R. Sibbald Descr. Isles Shetland 6 in Descr. Isles Orknay & Zetland There are in most of the Parishes Picts Houses, as they call them, they are some of them of a Pyramidal Form [etc.].

1821 W. Scott Pirate II. xiv. 320 One of those dens which are called Burghs and Picts-houses in Zetland.

1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 6/2 The so-called ‘Picts' houses’ or ‘earth houses’—low underground passages terminating in one or more chambers.

1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. 50/1 Picks' hoose, a general name for what appears to be any prehistoric dwelling.

单词	picts' house
释义	> as lemmas Picts' house Picts' house n. Scottish Archaeology any of various ancient dwellings in northern Scotland and the Northern and Western Isles, formerly thought to have been built by the Picts, esp. (a) an underground dwelling (cf. weem n.); (b) a circular stone fortified dwelling. ΚΠ 1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 20 There being several old houses..which to this day are called Picts or Pights Houses. 1711 R. Sibbald Descr. Isles Shetland 6 in Descr. Isles Orknay & Zetland There are in most of the Parishes Picts Houses, as they call them, they are some of them of a Pyramidal Form [etc.]. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. xiv. 320 One of those dens which are called Burghs and Picts-houses in Zetland. 1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 6/2 The so-called ‘Picts' houses’ or ‘earth houses’—low underground passages terminating in one or more chambers. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. 50/1 Picks' hoose, a general name for what appears to be any prehistoric dwelling. extracted from Pictn.adj. < as lemmas
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