grandfather clock

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A longcase clock.

词形变化

grandfather clocks plural

词源

From an 1876 song, Grandfather's Clock, by American songwriter Henry Work, based on a clock in the George Hotel in Piercebridge, County Durham, England, which stopped keeping time after its owner died.
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