| 单词 |
town hall |
| 释义 |
ˈtown ˈhall
1. A large hall used for the transaction of the public business of a town, the holding of a court of justice, assemblies, entertainments, etc.; the great hall of the town-house or municipal building; now very commonly applied to the whole building. Also attrib.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 460 Item, for pottes that ware brokyn in the towne hall. 1538London in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 223 [At Reading] Ther towne hall ys a very small howse, and stondith upon the ryver. 1697Lond. Gaz. No. 3336/3 Colchester, Oct. 28. Yesterday the Mayor..proclaimed the Peace before the Town-Hall and Dutch Bay Hall. 1701in Gentl. Mag. LXXXVIII. ii. (1818) 601/2 We inned here at the town-house, the town-hall being over part of it. 1897R. N. Bain tr. Jókai's Pretty Michal xxii. 172 The clock in the town-hall tower struck eight.
2. Comb.: town-hall clock(s) = moschatel.
1900Dickinson & Prevost Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (rev. ed.) p. xcv, Adoxa moschatellina. Town-hall clock (Carlisle). 1968F. Warner Garland 13 The red herb-Robert twined a bridge With celandine and town-hall-clocks. 1980Country Life 28 Feb. 589/3 The countryman's name for the four-faced pale green wood⁓land flower moschatel is..‘Town Hall Clocks’. |
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