单词 | resthouse garden |
释义 | > as lemmasresthouse garden General attributive (in sense 2), as resthouse garden, resthouse keeper. ΚΠ 1836 J. Selkirk 1 Jan. in Recoll. Ceylon (1844) xi. 462 We arrived at Avisavella about one p.m., and remained only about half an hour, as there was no rest-house keeper to be found, and no one came near us. 1883 S. E. Boggs tr. E. Haeckel India & Ceylon x. 122 My new protector led the way through the gate into the pretty rest-house garden, which is enclosed by a white wall. 1909 Athenæum 24 Apr. 492/1 I dislike the ramshackle rest-house, and its rude indifferent rest-house-keeper. 1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline xv. 183 I withdrew into the resthouse garden again. 2004 N. de Silva Far Spent Day 56 The resthouse keeper was an immensely fat man with a round hairless head. < as lemmas |
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