单词 | rondavel |
释义 | rondaveln. South African. A traditional circular African dwelling, usually with a thatched, conical roof. Also (in extended use): a circular building (typically with one room) used as a storeroom, a holiday cottage, an outbuilding on a farm, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1829 H. P. Hallbeck in Periodical Accts. Missions Church United Brethren (?1831) 11 223 A larger place of worship has..been constructed... Such a ‘rondavel’ house, as it is called, is erected at little or no expense. 1858 R. Moffat in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 28 173 There were two outhouses belonging to Bastards, one resembling a farmer's kitchen or rondavel. a1875 T. Baines Jrnl. of Resid. (1964) II. 282 Four thatched houses, a considerable number of huts—and rondheuvels, a kind of dwelling scarcely superior. 1891 J. Widdicombe Fourteen Years in Basutoland 84 Mr. Charles Bell had very kindly engaged a Mosuto..to build us a round hut, or rondavel, as the whites usually call it. 1900 A. H. Keane Boer States p. xviii Rondabel, ronddawel, a round hut..; is now an outhouse detached from the dwelling, and used as a kitchen. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John iii. 53 There were some twenty native huts, higher up the slope, which the Dutch call rondavels. 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 53/1 At the scene of operations rondavels have been constructed to accommodate the workers. 1958 M. Spark Go-away Bird 102 She had used to squat with old Makata..outside his large rondavel. 1976 Vogue Jan. 114/3 Antigua..the Anchorage Hotel..accommodation units, ranging from rondavels to air-conditioned rooms with patios. 2005 L. McGregor Khabzela 224 Kim and the earthwomen lived in brick and cement rondavels, surrounded by raised beds of vegetables. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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