单词 | terem |
释义 | teremn. Russian History. Secluded separate quarters for women. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > suite of rooms > [noun] > for women of household seraglio1581 serail1585 harem1634 gynaeceum1723 zenana1761 serai1813 anderoon1840 haremlik?1850 gynaeconitis1855 terem1898 1898 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 8 Jan. 42/2 The seclusion of Russian women in the Terem was one of the sacred institutions of his [sc. Peter the Great's] country. 1908 Cambr. Mod. Hist. V. xvii. 519 The boy soon felt cramped and stifled in the dim and close semi-religious atmosphere of Natalia's terem. 1929 S. Runciman Emperor Romanus Lecapenus i. 28 It has been customary to regard the gynaecum as a prison from which Byzantine women never emerged—an exact equivalent of the Russian terem, which most historians say derived from it, forgetting Russia's two and a half centuries of Mongol rule. 1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia iv. 169 The maiden lived in her terem, its windows strictly latticed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1898 |
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