英语词汇bay window的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bay window
词源	bay window. The bay window, devised as early as the 14th century, is so named because in projecting from the house it made the room inside appear to mariners like a little harbor or bay. Bay window has been American slang for a “pot belly” since the 1890s.
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