widow's walk

短语

n. 临海房子的屋顶天台

词形变化

widow's walks 复数 widow's walks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A raised platform on the roof of a house, especially one on a coastal house originally used for viewing the arrival of shipping

    美国

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

lookout observatory observation tower

词源

Apparently in reference to the women who would watch for their husbands to return from the sea, but would sometimes learn that they had been killed.

来源：wiktionary