| 单词 | tin town |
| 释义 | > as lemmastin town d. Applied disparagingly to buildings (esp. Nonconformist churches) made partly of corrugated iron: tin chapel, tabernacle (cf. tabernacle n. 6b), etc. Also, tin town. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [noun] framec1425 staddlec1563 sided1602 brick house1608 dobe1838 brick1844 adobe1852 shell1852 cinderblock1868 tin chapel1884 brick veneer1885 red brick1892 gambrel1917 weatherboard1925 Terrapin1949 Portakabin1963 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > other types of town country town1598 post town1635 Residenz1824 garden town1835 Residenzstadt1841 hometown1851 tin town1884 ghost town1894 new town1918 shopping strip1935 twin town1955 society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist > made of corrugated iron tin chapel1884 1884 Lichfield Diocesan Mag. Jan. 11/2 It was decided to build ‘a little bit of a tin tabernacle’. 1886 Marquess of Bute Let. 17 Apr. in D. H. Blair John Patrick 3rd Marquess of Bute (1921) ix. 154 The persistent wish of my Lord of Argyll to have what he calls an ‘opening’ of the tin temple in August. 1897 E. Edwards Journey through S. Afr. viii. 48 It would not be out of place to refer to Kimberley as a ‘tin’ town. 1919 A. T. Bassett S. Barnabas', Oxf. iv. 36 This was before the ‘tin’ church at Cowley S. John existed. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. vi. 242 That's the Station Refreshment Rooms, a tin place, just opposite. 1934 D. Thomas Let. Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 143 We made a tour of the pubs..drinking to the..destruction of the Tin Bethels. 1937 New Statesman 13 Nov. 802/2 The several designs of late-Victorian tin-chapel in the slums of a northern industrial town. 1962 ‘J. le Carré’ Murder of Quality x. 108 That parson man from the tin tabernacle. 1979 ‘P. O'Connor’ Into Strong City ii. xxix. 103 Being born again had become no longer a derisive tin chapel slogan but a phrase to describe what was happening to me. < as lemmas |
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