单词 | street parlour |
释义 | > as lemmasstreet parlour street parlour n. now historical a sitting room on the ground floor fronting the street. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room parlourc1384 street parlour1734 sitting room1763 keeping-room1771 room1795 voorhuis1822 voorkamer1827 lounge1881 sitkamer1897 sitter1899 sit1911 1734 J. Swift Let. Jan. in Wks. (1768) XIII. 119 Being told by the servants that I was gone to a friend's house, [he] went thither to inquire for me, and was admitted into the street parlour. 1837 Times 31 Aug. 3/5 The tawdry finery, and the stew, and the smell, of the sweltering street parlour. 1911 G. Moore Hail & Farewell! I. x. 276 He loves the dialect and detests the defaced idiom which we speak in our street parlour. 2005 C. Casey Dublin 371 On the ground floor..a flagged passage runs behind the street parlour. < as lemmas |
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