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单词 winter house
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winter housen.

Brit. /ˈwɪntə haʊs/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(t)ər ˌhaʊs/
Forms: see winter n.1 and house n.1 and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: winter n.1, house n.1
Etymology: < winter n.1 + house n.1 Compare Middle Dutch winterhuus (Dutch winterhuis), Middle High German winterhūs (German Winterhaus).
A house suitable or intended for occupation in winter. Cf. summer house n. 1.
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winter houseOE
winter housing?1440
hibernacle1708
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 404 Þa oþre gebytlu bæftan þære healle, bæðhus and kycenan, and winterhus and sumorhus, and wynsume buras.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Amos iii. 15 Y shal smyte the wyntyr hous [L. domum hiemalem] with the somer hous.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 530 Wyntyr howse, or halle [a1500 King's Cambr. wintyr-halle], hibernaculum.
1534 G. Joye tr. Jeremy Prophete xxxvi. f. lxviii The kinge then abode in his wynter house: for it was then nouembyr.
1625 J. Hall Voy. Greenland in S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iv. xv. 825 They did come to see their winter houses, which were builded with Whales bones.
1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iv. 173 Beavers..lay these together so as to build themselves strong winter-houses.
1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 256 He has a winter-house in Florence.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 392 These circles were at first supposed to be the remains of winter-houses.
1892 J. Murdoch in 9th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1887–8 72 The permanent winter houses are built of wood and thickly covered with clods of earth.
1963 Ethnology 2 180 The mountain passes at old camps already provided with sod winter houses.
2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons ii. iii. 70 Down the creek not far from the trade post, he had a farmstead in the old style, with cabins and a winterhouse, cornfields and corncribs, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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