单词 | screens passage |
释义 | > as lemmasscreens passage screens passage n. a space at the service end of a large hall between the screen (sense 6a) and the doors to the kitchen or buttery and typically also to the main entrance porch, often having a gallery over it. ΚΠ 1894 Proc. Cambr. Antiquarian Soc. 8 ii. 239 These dimensions place the old screens passage in the position of the present one. 1975 E. Mercer Eng. Vernacular Houses 50 In the houses of great men the through-passage was a screens-passage, flanked on the hall side by a timber screen. 2008 A. Gomme & A. Maguire Design & Plan in Country House 85/1 A smaller hall than at Ashbury (without a screens passage) allows room for the abbot's parlour behind the dais. < as lemmas |
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