| 单词 | woman-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman-house woman-house n. chiefly Scottish now rare (a) a house, room, etc., that serves as accommodation for women (esp. female servants) and children (cf. women-house n. at Compounds 4c) (now historical); †(b) the laundry of a mansion house (obsolete); (c) a house occupied wholly or predominantly by a woman or women. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people grass house1557 woman-house1566 fishing-house1676 family house1727 henhouse1785 women-house1792 bachelor('s) hall1841 bachelor-apartment1857 garçonnière1927 bachelor1968 bachelorette1973 pit house1974 squat1975 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > place where washing is done lavendry1377 washing-house14.. bucking-stoke1483 laundry1577 wash-house1577 laundry-house1585 bucking-house1597 wash-yardc1625 lavatory1661 buck-house1738 woman-house1754 wash-kitchen1838 water-shed1859 washery1875 1566 Protocol Bks. T. Johnsoun (1920) 101 The place of Caulder..The woman hous. 1611–12 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 340 In the barnes chalmer called the woeman hous ane wondoke of auld glas. 1622 Breadalbane Coll. Documents & Lett. (Edinb. Reg. House) No. 428 Off tubbis in the voman hous. 1655 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 87 Dauid Browne..did poynt the wholle house..the old ladys chamber, the woman house, the sclat-girnell, [etc.]. 1754 State of Process, Mrs. Forbes v. D. Scot (Jam.) Water lying on the floors of the woman-house and kitchen. 1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 16 421 It is customary in many places to have large ‘man-houses’ for the males, and smaller ‘woman-houses’ for the women and children. 1907 J. Colville in Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps 1737–9 p. xxix Outhouses were brewhouse, guill or still-house, slaughter-house, milkhouse, bake-house and two ‘woman houses’. 1912 E. Frazer Man-House in Cosmopolitan Mar. 608 Most houses, unless otherwise advertised, is woman-houses. If a man lives there, he's got to mind the woman in it, or look out for nasty weather. < as lemmas |
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