| 单词 | servants' hall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasservants' hall a. The large public room in a mansion, palace, etc., used for receptions, banquets, etc., which till nearly 1600 greatly surpassed in size and importance the private rooms or ‘bowers’ (see bower n.1 2); a large or stately room in a house. in hall, was often rhetorically contrasted with in the field. servants' hall: the common room in a mansion or large house in which the servants dine. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > large or principal room hallc1200 sala1611 aula1626 sale1632 salle1765 ha'1808 saal1855 megaron1877 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > living room > in great house hallc1200 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 He..ches þere crundel to halle · and eorðhole to bure. a1225 Leg. Kath. 1470 In halle & i bure. c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 252 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 334 And nu ben theih liouns in halle, and hares in the feld. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 723/7 Hoc atrium, a hawlle. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 388 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 311 In halle make fyre at yche a mele. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 258 The honorable vse, is all ago, In hall and bour, in burgh and plane. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxi. 383 The ryche chambers that were on the syde of the hall. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/2 Halle in a house, salle. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. M3v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) When by a part we vnderstand the whole, as to say..a Hall for a house. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 16 The Hall for Audience is on the right hand of the Court. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 261 The first Room is a large Hall, about 19 Foot Broad, and between 30 and 40 in Length. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The hall..in the Houses of Ministers of State, public Magistrates, &c. is that wherein they dispatch Business, and give Audience. 1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. I. 152 One [compartment] occupying nearly half the area, which was designated ‘the hall’, and appropriated to the ordinary daily purposes of drawing and dining-room. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 22 To quarrel in the servants' hall while waiting for their masters and mistresses. 1861 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 2) iii. 76 Part of the great Norman hall remains, now converted into the servants' hall. servants' hall servants' hall n. now historical (a) a large room used as a common room or dining room by the servants (in sense 1) employed in a large house; (b) used attributively to refer to attitudes or actions regarded (typically because of roughness or lack of sophistication) as characteristic of such an environment. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > dining room > servants' servants' hall1721 1721 Particular & Inventory Sir J. Blunt (South-Sea Company) 45 In the Servants Hall and Passage. A Table, 8 Buckets, a Stool, a Horse for Clothes. a1741 C. Fiennes Journeys (1947) i. 55 Just behind the hall is the Servants hall. 1813 Examiner 8 Feb. 89/1 The ethics of the kitchen and servants'-hall. 1860 Birmingham Daily Post 1 Mar. 4/3 We quite approve of their refusal to submit to this servants' hall treatment. 1941 H. Dalton Diary 30 Mar. in Second World War Diary (1986) iii. 179 This leads me to make some observations on the way in which British diplomats always seem to be glamoured and bamboozled by local Kings. Why this Servants' Hall mentality? 2012 20th-cent. Lit. 58 225 Hartley is required to dine in the servants' hall. < as lemmas |
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