shotgun house

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
    — Dr. King’s words filled the front room of the shotgun house.

词形变化

shotgun houses plural

词源

* New Orleans architectural historian Samuel Wilson, Jr. has suggested that the term alludes to the idea that if all the doors are opened, a shotgun blast fired into the house from the front doorway will fly cleanly to the other end and out at the back.
* Folklorist John Michael Vlach has suggested a corruption of a Dahomey Fon area term "to-gun", meaning "place of assembly", brought to New Orleans by Afro-Haitian slaves.
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