| 词汇 | stove |
| 词源 | stove. The first stoves were saunas, not kitchen appliances. Stove comes to us from the Old English stofa “a hot air bath,” or sauna, the hot steam baths brought to England from Scandina- via. Stofa didn’t change in spelling to stove until the 15th centu- ry and it wasn’t until the 16th century that stove was used to mean a furnace. |
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