pepperbox

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pepper shaker.
  2. A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.
    — She had her knees up, resting her wrists on them; the pepperbox muzzle of a flechette pistol emerged from her hands.
  3. A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.
  4. A tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker.
    — Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.
  5. Any of the buildings of the Royal Academy and National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, having cupolas on the roof. in-plural,slang
    — I also remember the old Royal Mews that stood on the site of the present trumpery National Gallery, with its too suggestive pepper-boxes; […]

词形变化

pepperboxes plural

词源

From pepper + box.
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