| 单词 | supper bed |
| 释义 | > as lemmassupper bed supper bed n. now rare †(a) Roman History = supper couch n. (obsolete); (b) a similar piece of modern furniture. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > for reclining at meals dining bed1577 triclinium1646 feast-beda1661 supper beda1661 table couch1783 a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 215 Supper-beds,..Whose Brass-Front shew'd an Asse's vile head Crown'd. 1751 Earl of Orrery in tr. Pliny the Younger Lett. (Dublin ed.) II. ix. xxxvi. 315 Scipio Africanus first introduced the supper-beds; which, as they came from Carthage, were called lecti Punicani, or Archaici. 2003 Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. 8 When did you last experience sartorial embarrassment? At Blakes in Amsterdam. Reclining on their ‘supper’ beds in the restaurant, I took my shoes off to reveal one blue sock and one black one. < as lemmas |
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