单词 | bottle house |
释义 | bottle housen. 1. a. A room or outhouse in which bottles of wine, beer, etc., are stored. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > storage room closet1532 spicery1536 bottle housea1637 housemaid's closet1819 housemaid's pantry1848 a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady v. viii. 60 in Wks. (1640) III Int. Where was she hid? Pal. In an old Botle-house, Where they scrap'd trenchers. 1760 W. Matson Catal. Housh. Furnit. Mrs. Masters sig. B2 In the Bottle House. Two large bottle racks... Two barrels [etc.]. 1887 App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (4th Sess. 9th Parl.) II. H.–19. 21 A servants' hall,..a coalhouse, a man-servants room, a bottle-house. 1999 P. Brears All King's Cooks iv. 56 Since the storage of beer and wine in glass bottles only began on a large scale in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods, there would appear to have been little need for a bottle house in the palace in the 1540s. b. Chiefly U.S. A building from which alcoholic drinks are sold in bottles. Cf. barrel-house n. 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1891 Salt Lake Tribune 17 Mar. 1/1 There are 495 licenced saloons in the city [of Denver] and 147 bottle houses. 1895 Oak Park (Illinois) Vindicator 17 May 5/7 Melrose Park saloons will sell beer on Sunday as well as the ‘bottle’ houses. 1921 I. S. Cobb One Third Off x. 135 In a commonwealth abounding in distilleries,..bottle-houses, barrel-houses, and saloons, I should have been a hopeless inebriate long before I came of age. 1987 Orange Coast Mag. Nov. 176/2 A bottle house, barrel house, log cabin and other buildings..were added to Ghost Town. 2. A building or factory in which bottle-glass is produced and used in the manufacture of bottles, jars, etc. (see bottle glass n. (b) at bottle n.3 Compounds 8). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > glass > type of bottle works1695 bottle house1805 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. I. 161 They began to work in the bottle-house at North Leith. 1816 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 8 Jan. The English glass houses are now known by the names..the bottle house, the flint glass house, and the plate glass house. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 652 A bottle-house has generally eight other furnaces. 1912 Amer. Flint May 40/2 Those bottles..are made according to a custom and style that..is not similar to the bottle house method. 1989 M. Kramer Making Sense of Wine v. 104 By 1695 there were thirty-eight bottlehouses out of a total of ninety glassworks operating in England. 1999 Bristol Post (Nexis) 16 Mar. 2 Bristol's last flint glasshouse closed in 1851 and the last bottlehouse in 1823. 3. A house constructed using bottles (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction thatch-house1521 slate house1554 thack housec1600 frame house1627 log-house1662 straw1665 thatch1693 tin-house1798 fog house1799 leaf house1811 rock house1818 black house1819 blockhouse1821 white house1824 slab-and-bark house1826 brown house1845 brush house1854 soddy1877 hurdle-housea1879 bottle house1913 stucco1922 prefab1942 Portal house1944 Airey1945 yali1962 1913 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 27 June 10/3 Genevieve lived in the bottle house. It was called the bottle house because it was made of bottles. 1940 Nevada: Guide to Silver State (Federal Writers' Project) 102 The adobe was..[occasionally strengthened] with old..bottles. In the so-called bottle-houses the glass containers were laid horizontally. 1994 P. B. Goldman Monkeyshines on Canada 9 In Cape Egmont, Prince Edward Island, there are several Bottle Houses built between 1980 and 1983. 2006 Edge (Malaysia) (Nexis) 17 Nov. Bottle houses. Building houses out of bottles is a recurring theme in the world of junkitecture..[as] their uniform shapes..make them ideal construction materials. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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