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单词 vance-roof
释义

vance-roofn.

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s vaunce-.
Etymology: < vaunce v.
East Anglian.
A garret. Also figurative.
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1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 261 Canst thou hide any one sinne in the vance roofe of thy heart?
1657 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 119 You may ges how full our hous is whan my lady and all hir faimily of women ly in the van [c] e rouff over the dining chamber.
1682–3 MS. Lett. Norwich Quakers And for the vance roofes we giue 10s a weeke for those to worke in yt Lodge in the hole.
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 391 Vance-roof, the garret.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 455 Vaunceroof, a garret; according to Grose, a Suffolk word; and I give it solely on his authority as I never heard it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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