| 单词 |
day-bed |
| 释义 |
ˈday-bed A bed to rest on in the daytime; a sofa, couch, lounge; transf. (the using of) a bed by day.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vii. 72 (Qo. 1) He is not lulling on a lewd day bed. a1613Overbury Charac., Ordinarie Fencer Wks. (1856) 111 A bench, which in the vacation of the afternoons he uses as his day-bed. ― Distaster 127 He is a day-bed for the Devill to slumber on. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxix, An old-fashioned day-bed, or settee. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son II. 193 Day-beds, fetid air, nightly waltzes and quadrilles, rob her of youth. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 225/2 Day bed, a low lounge with sloping head rest. 1969L. J. Chiaramonte in Halpert & Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 100 The girls sit down on a day bed (a single cot-type couch found in every kitchen). |

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