单词 | two-pair back |
释义 | > as lemmastwo-pair back b. Used elliptically, e.g. in one-pair back, two-pair back, three-pair back, a room at the back of a house on the first, second, third floor. (Cf. front n. 11.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > room at the back of a house back-chamber1535 back-drawing-room1535 back-parlour1535 back room1592 back1836 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 3 I rents a two-pair back, gentlemen. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxi. 202 In the two-pair back of the house..or in the three-pair front. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xiii. 233 City pastorals, written in a third story back, by men reared in the city. 1883 Mrs. Plunkett in Harper's Mag. Jan. 236/2 Kate was established in the little ‘three pair back’. 1902 H. James Wings of Dove v. xii. 196 The commodious, ‘handsome’ room, far back in the fine old house..the rich dusk of a London ‘back’. < as lemmas |
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