barrelhouse
英 ['bær(ə)lhaʊs]
美['bærəl,haʊs]
- n. (美)廉价小酒馆;一种早期乱奏的爵士乐
英英释义
- 1. a cheap drinking and dancing establishment
实用场景例句
- The room was crowded and Barrelhouse was on duty.
- 店堂里人满满的,巴雷尔豪斯正在照应着.
辞典例句
- An early type of jazz characterized by a strong beat and rollicking delivery , similar to barrelhouse.
- 一种早期的爵士乐, 节奏强劲,表演喧闹,与低级酒店爵士乐类似.
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双语例句
- 1. The room was crowded and Barrelhouse was on duty.
- 店堂里人满满的,巴雷尔豪斯正在照应着.
来自辞典例句
- 2. An early type of jazz characterized by a strong beat and rollicking delivery , similar to barrelhouse.
- 一种早期的爵士乐, 节奏强劲,表演喧闹,与低级酒店爵士乐类似.
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英文词源
- barrelhouse (n.)
- "cheap saloon, often with an associated brothel," by 1875, American English, so called in reference to the barrels of beer or booze typically stacked along the wall. See barrel (n.) + house (n.).
Q. What was this place you rented? -- A. It was a room adjoining a barrel-house.
Q. What is a barrel house? -- A. It is a room where barrels of whisky are tapped, a very inferior kind of whisky, and the whisky is sold by the glassful right out of the barrel. It is a primitive coffee house. [Committee Report of the 43rd Congress, Select Committee on Conditions of the South, 1874-75]
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复数: barrelhouses;
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