tholtan

发音

/toʊltən/

词形变化

tholtans 复数 tholtans

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An abandoned house; the ruin of a building which was once a home.

    You can be sitting in a tholtan down in back Castle Street in Peel in a bit of property that is not fit to live in, but it will still be rated at about £55. So the whole system, really, is wrong.

    Throughout the Isle, abandoned tholtans, devoid of their thatched roofs and whitewash, are silent reminders of the people who once were sheltered near the warmth of their hearths and sang in their own Celtic tongue.

词源

From Manx tholtan. Compare tolltach (“full of holes”).

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