shotgun house

短语

排房

词形变化

shotgun houses 复数 shotgun houses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.

词源

* New Orleans architectural historian Samuel Wilson, Jr. has suggested that the term alludes to the idea that if all the doors are opened, a shotgun blast fired into the house from the front doorway will fly cleanly to the other end and out at the back. * Folklorist John Michael Vlach has suggested a corruption of a Dahomey Fon area term "to-gun", meaning "place of assembly", brought to New Orleans by Afro-Haitian slaves.

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