bonehouse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A body. poetic
    — […] beyond whatever - a comfort to consider those bones - Or run my hand over elastic frail ribcage, the woman I love, her pulse of desire. What store of affection inside the bonehouse? Tilt of the chin, and how her denim skirt falls to her shoes.
  2. A building for holding the remains of the dead.
  3. A corpse. poetic
    — […] but the poet, having moved through a landscape that is defined by images of barrenness and desolation — trees "lorn of all delicious apple," an empty house given over to "dust that filmed the deadened air," "the bonehouse of a rabbit," […]

词形变化

bonehouses plural bonehouses plural

词源

词源 1
From Old English bānhūs (“the body, the chest, breast”, literally “the bone-house”), equivalent to bone + house.
词源 2
From bone + house. Compare German Beinhaus (“ossuary”).
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