Dutch billy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of terraced house with distinctive curved gables, formerly common in Dublin and other Irish towns.
    — They were ready to be superseded on their sites at the end of the seventeeth century by what we call the "Dutch Billy" houses.

词形变化

Dutch billies plural

词源

Apparently a transferred use of Dutch Billy, a nickname for William III (applied to the houses on account of their Dutch appearance).
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