curfew

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɜː.fjuː/    美 /ˈkɝ.fju/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
    — Curfews have been curbing / The end of liberty
  2. The time when such restriction begins.
  3. A signal indicating this time.
  4. A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
  5. A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell. historical
  6. The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.
    — I have my lodging neere unto a tower, where both evening and morning a very great bell doth chime Ave marie and Cover-few, which jangling doth even make the tower to shake […].

词形变化

curfews plural cover-few alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
anticurfew curfewed curfewless curfew pass noncurfew postcurfew precurfew
相关词
lights-out lockdown martial law state of emergency state of siege stay-at-home order

词源

From Middle English curfu, from Old French cuevre-fu (French couvre-feu), from the imperative of covrir (“to cover”) + fu (“fire”). Compare kerchief.
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