| 单词 | welsh chimney |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWelsh chimney Welsh chimney n. Architecture (now historical) (esp. with reference to 17th-cent. American architecture) a type of chimney typically made from woven branches or wooden slats and coated in clay mortar. ΚΠ 1645 R. Buckland Rec. 7 Jan. in S. M. Ames County Court Rec. Accomack-Northampton, Va. (1973) 395 A house of Twenty Foote long with a welch Chimney in it besides and Fifteen Foote Broade. 1653 Provinc. Court Business 2 Dec. in W. H. Browne Archit. Maryland (1891) 302 Thomas Wilford and my Assignes Shall..build him a fifteen foot house Square with a welch Chimney. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 49 Welch-chimney,(?) 'House fifteene foot broade with a Welch-chimney in it'. 1948 H. C. Forman Archit. Old South iii. ii. 114 The Welsh chimney is a wicker and thatch affair, still to be seen in Carmarthenshire and on the English side of the Welsh border. It comprised a hood or canopy of wattle-and-daub, or lath-and-plaster, set over the fire. 2008 R. Versaci Roots of Home 124/2 Chimneys were simple channels carrying smoke out the roof, built of wooden slats woven together into a tall box sealed with clay (called a Welsh chimney). < as lemmas |
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