pewdom

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church. historical,uncountable
    — […] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]

词源

From pew + -dom.
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