chummery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj. India,historical
    — 1966, Paul Scott, "The Jewel in the Crown" in The Raj Quartet, 1966-1975. Close by, but only to be glimpsed through the gateway in a high stucco wall, similarly shaded, is the bungalow once known as the chummery where three of four of Mr White's unmarried sub-divisional officers - usually Indians of the uncovenanted provincial civil service - used to live when not on tour in their own allotted areas of the district.
  2. The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families. South-Asia
    — Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day.

词形变化

chummeries plural

词源

From chum + -ery.
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