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单词 singing-pew
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singing-pew
4. Of places used for singing in, as singing-gallery, singing-house, singing loft, singing-pew, singing-place, singing-room, singing-seat, singing theatre.
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c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 151 At the end of it, is a Cupola or singing theater.
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Ii2v/1 Jubé,..a singing Place.
1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 708 The Reading-Desk stands just by the Singing-Pew.
1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 74 The lightning entered..through two places in the roof, one near the singing loft.
1774 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1884) XXI. 271 Voted Liberty to beuld a singing Seat in the front of the Gallearry Pues.
c1820 S. Rogers Como in Italy (1839) 211 That shady nook, a singing place for birds.
1842 F. Witts Diary 22 Oct. (1978) 167 The remains were to be deposited at the west end of Upton St. Leonards church, under the singing gallery, near the font.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xx. 189 The theatres and singing-houses which these roaring young blades frequented.
1851 J. W. Hudson Hist. Adult Educ. 157 Singing-rooms are numerous, prosperous and constantly well-attended.
1864 J. G. Whittier Wreck of Rivermouth 109 In the singing-seats young eyes were dim.
1883 C. C. Perkins Hist. Handbk. Ital. Sculpt. 139 A singing-gallery (cantoria) in the Cathedral.
1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns ii. 34 Mynors..should have been in his place in the ‘orchestra’ (or, as some term it, the ‘singing-seat’) of the [Methodist] chapel.
1976 S. Wales Echo 27 Nov. 12/6 (advt.) Sing along with Mike and Charles at the newly decorated singing-room upstairs.
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