| 单词 |
bay-window |
| 释义 |
bay-window|ˈbeɪˈwɪndəʊ| [f. bay n.3 + window.] ‘A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outwards from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; often called a bow-window.’ Parker Concise Gloss. Archit.
1428in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 6 In the baye wyndowe of the chambre. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 204 All Newgate wyndowes bay wyndowes they bee. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. ii. 40 Why it hath bay Windowes transparant as baricadoes. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 233 The old bay-windows he will have preserved. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. iii. 105 Three stories of bow-window (not bay-window, which is another thing). Hence bay-windowed, having bay-windows.
1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. vi. 331 In the bay windowed drawing-room. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. II. 137 An airy bay-windowed drawing room. 1883A. Crane in Leis. H. 481/2 The ‘bay-windowed’ city of San Francisco. |

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