英语词汇house names的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	house names
词源	house names. In Memories of My Boyhood Days (1923) New Englander Joseph Farnum writes of the “unique, catchy, origi- nal and forcefully cute titles . . .” given to many old houses by “a hardy farmer and fisherman people of days long agone.” He re- members, among many others, house names like Takitezie, In and Out, Bigenough, Nonetoobig, House of Lords, Seldomin, Thimble Castle, and Waldorf Astoria, Jr. Today vacation homes often are given such names.
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