telescope house

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词形变化

telescope houses 复数 telescope houses

释义与例句

n.
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    A house with multiple extensions connected serially, decreasing in size.

    The need for space to house an increasing family, or an increasing prosperity, also resulted in a type of building Marylanders call a ‘telescope house.’

    1978, James A. Michener, Chesapeake, Chapter "Refuge" As they passed beneath Peace Cliff he observed Mr. Steed looking with some interest at the telescope house, then quickly looking away, but he attached no significance to the incident.

    The “telescope house” was common to eastern Pennsylvania, especially in the utopian communities that gathered there more than a century ago.