单词 | shophouse |
释义 | shophousen.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > workshop > [noun] workhouseOE officinec1425 shopc1450 working-house1474 working place?1505 frame housea1555 workshop1556 framing house1559 working-shop1566 shophouse1567 frame building1574 operatory1651 shopping1684 officina1832 atelier1882 craft shop1896 skunk works1960 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest i. f. 15v There are other kindes [of marble] also which breede and haue the very rocks to be their shop houses, as ye Marble in Corinth, wherof whole Pillars and great Beames are made. 1595 J. Chardon Fulfordo et Fulfordæ 43 For what do the Sunnes of men find in our shops & shop-houses, in our wares and ware-houses, but fraud and deceit, if not worse? a1627 R. Shelford Five Pious Disc. (1635) 236 He [sc. Nestorius] was termed..officina blasphemiarum, the shop-house of blasphemies, as we reade in Euagrius. a1640 W. Fenner Spiritvall Man's Direct. (1648) 148 He [sc. Satan] hath his Shop-house in all the children of disobedience, and he worketh in them. 2. ΚΠ 1791 World 13 Apr. The ground rent of shop-houses in Edinburgh is now rated at the enormous estimate of being covered with guineas. This may in some degree account for their excessive height. 1809 W. Mitford Princ. Design in Archit. xxviii. 214 In streets then, whether of shophouses, or of dwellings for the mass of wealthier inhabitants, the disadvantage is similar. b. In South-East Asia, a shop opening on to the pavement and also used as the residence of the proprietor. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop and residence fondaco1599 shophouse1894 1894 J. H. M. Robson People in Native State 45 The favourite style of residence with these ladies is an ordinary double-storied Chinese shop-house in a back street. 1949 Malayan Pictorial Observer Aug. 9 Shop-houses line the main street. 1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times v. 182 The shophouse had four small rooms. The front room, or shop, was given over to a dispensary... Behind were two small bedrooms and a kitchen. 2005 T. Aw Harmony Silk Factory i. i. 3 The Harmony Silk Factory is the name of the shophouse my father bought in 1942 as a front for his illegal business. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1567 |
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