caballeria

From Spanish caballería, from caballero (“horseman, gentleman, cowboy”) + -ía (“-y: forming nouns”), from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman, rider”), from Latin caballus (“horse”) + -ārius (“-ary”). Doublet of cavalry and chivalry.

(historical, law) A medieval Spanish land tenure equivalent to a knight's fee, held under an obligation for military service.


Heppelwhite

Named after the cabinet-maker George Hepplewhite.

A light and elegant style of furniture developed in England during the reign of George III.


federation furniture

From the era of Australian Federation in 1901.

(Australia) a style of wooden furniture from the early 1900s.


operating table

en-noun

operating table (plural operating tables)

A table on which a patient lies during a surgical operation.


salad fork

A fork intended for use when eating salad, often shorter than a usual dinner fork and sometimes having one of the outer tines shaped differently.


table knife

A type of knife used to cut cooked and prepared food, with a single moderately sharp edge.


microhouse

microhouse (countable and uncountable, plural microhouses)

From micro- + house, in the music sense attributed to Philip Sherburne.


spade foot

spade foot (plural spade foots or spade feet)

spade foots (plural)
spade feet (plural)

The spade foot leg may be used as an alternate design.

1929 June, Charles A. King, “Constructing a Piano Bench”, in Popular Science, volume 114, number 6, page 79:

Also, the glazing pattern of the bookcase traces simple diamonds rather than more elaborate arches or other curved elements, and the tapered legs end without a spade foot or an additional taper at the cuff.

2004, Philip D. Zimmerman, Charles Thomas Butler, Catherine E. Hutchins, American Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts from the Watson Collection, →ISBN, page 93:

First was his straight tapered leg, sometimes with a spade foot, at other times tipped in brass.

2011, George Grotz, The Furniture Doctor, →ISBN:

(furniture) A block-shaped foot higher than wide and tapering slightly toward the bottom. The spade foot usually terminates a tapering leg, and the top of the foot is wider than the leg.


Trianon

/ˈtɹiːəˌnɒn/

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From French Trianon, the name of a hamlet that formerly occupied the site on which the Grand Trianon would be built.

Either of the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon, two royal palaces constructed in Versailles, France, in the 17th and 18th centuries.

(metonymically, historical) The Treaty of Trianon, a peace treaty signed in the Grand Trianon on 4 June 1920, which formally ended World War I between most of the Allies and the Kingdom of Hungary, leaving Hungary as a landlocked state with less than one-third of its prewar area.


chef's knife

chef's knife (plural chef's knives or chefs' knives)

chef's knives (plural)
chefs' knives (plural)

A type of general purpose kitchen knife used for food preparation, typically measuring eight inches by one and a half inches.

菜刀

cleaver used as a chef's knife in Chinese cooking


elbow-chair

(now rare) Alternative form of elbow chair


flower garden

A mile or so further on is the intermediate station of Ryhall, smothered with primroses in the season, and at all times a veritable flower garden.

1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:

A garden where flowers are grown for decorative purposes.


hedge maze

An outdoor garden maze in which the walls between passages are made of vertical hedges.


bidworthy

en-adj

bidworthy (comparative more bidworthy, superlative most bidworthy)

more bidworthy (comparative)
most bidworthy (superlative)

(real estate, housing market) Worthy of a bid or offer


oyster knife

That Puddin', sir, and me, has, back to back,
Withstood the fearful Rumty Tums' attack,
And swum the Indian Ocean for our lives,
Pursued by Oysters, armed with oyster knives.

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 160:

A knife with a short, thick blade, used to pry open oysters and separate the meat from the shell.


salad spinner

A tool using centrifugal force to wash and dry salad


saltspoon

1798, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Young Philosopher, London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 55-56,
Her reasons […] for disliking paupers of every description were entirely on the surface; “she hated them,” she said, “for they were nasty dirty creatures; the fellows and wenches were all thieves; she once lost a salt spoon by one of them whom Master George thought proper to bring to her door for cold victuals […] ”

His gleaming little service of plate was so arranged upon his sideboard as that a slack salt-spoon would have instantly betrayed itself […]

1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, chapter 22, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:

Dashed the bold fork through pies of pork;
O’er hard-boiled eggs the saltspoon shook;

1872, Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Palace”, in Fly Leaves, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, page 15:

There is no such thing as a saltspoon in Yucatan. You are expected to shake the salt out or take it out with your fingers.

1909, Channing Arnold, Frederick J. Tabor Frost, chapter 20, in The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan, London: Hutchinson, page 352:

(historical) A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.


eating knife

(historical) A type of relatively blunt knife used for eating purposes, and not as a weapon


microhome

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Coordinate term: microapartment

Containertopia and Mr. Kloehn’s mobile shelters draw from the tiny house movement, a shift to a more ascetic way of living that has inspired entire microhome villages in places like Olympia, Wash., and Madison, Wis., as well as isolated examples in countless backyards.

2015 October 13, Sarah Maslin Nir, “Thinking Outside the Box by Moving Into One”, in New York Times:

Get ready for a new wave of “micro-homes” – tiny flats, often in converted office buildings, that are roughly the size of a typical bedroom yet supposedly big enough for two people to live in.

2017 February 11, Rupert Jones, “Welcome to rabbit-hutch Britain, land of the ever-shrinking home”, in The Guardian:

A very small domestic dwelling, constructed at that size in order to save environmental resources.


dry sink

Called dry because there is no connection to plumbing pipes.

(furniture) a type of cabinet used to hold a washbasin and water pitcher, sometimes including splashboards.

washstand

a type of table used to hold a washbasin and water pitcher


food garden

vegetable garden
vegetable garden#English


children's table

en-noun

children's table (plural children's tables)


Sandringham

The town in Newfoundland is named after Sandringham House to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

King's Lynn and West Norfolk
King's Lynn and West Norfolk#English

A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6928).


box-bed

Perhaps the wood had warped too much during the monsoon, I thought, and the lid of the old box-bed did not fit properly.

2013, Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj, →ISBN:

A bed that has the form of a large box for storage, with the lid of the box serving as the sleeping platform.


carpet sweeper

A mechanical (not electric) device for cleaning carpets by means of a rotating brush.


sautoire

1893, Charles Ranhofer, The Epicurean, Dover (Calla Editions), 2017 Facsimile Edition, page 334,
Use the same slices of bread, only instead of toasting them, lay them in a sautoire with hot clarified butter; brown them on one side only, then drain, and leave the butter in the sautoire.

Dip them in beaten egg, roll in fresh bread crumbs, and place in a sautoire with one ounce of clarified butter.

1900, Jennie Day Rees, The Complete Cook Book, page 109:

Lay them in a sautoire, season with salt, pepper and two ounces butter.

1903, Mrs. Simon Kander, Mrs. Henry Schoenfeld, The "Settlement" Cook Book, 1903: The Way to a Man's Heart, Dover, published 2005, page 74:

A heavy skillet with straight sides, used for sautéing food.


paramount title

paramount title (plural paramount titles)

(law, real estate) A claim to the title of a property, which is superior and stronger in comparison to all other claims.


personal covenant

personal covenant (plural personal covenants)

(countable, law, real estate) A legal agreement or promise regarding a piece of real estate, which binds the party who makes the covenant but which does not pass from one owner to another when the land is conveyed.


real covenant

(law, real estate) A legal agreement or promise regarding a piece of real estate, which passes from one owner to another when the land is conveyed and which is said to run with the land.


covenant of warranty

covenant of warranty (plural covenants of warranty)

(countable, law, real estate) A legal agreement or promise, one of the English covenants of title and future covenants, whereby the grantor of a property assures the grantee that he or she will not be subject to the claims of someone with a paramount title, thereby guaranteeing the status of the title that is being conveyed.


fan heater

an electric heater fitted with a fan which blows out hot air.


Windsor chair

The first chairs made this way were shipped to London from the market town of Windsor, Berkshire in 1724. There is speculation that the chair derives its name from the town of Windsor, which became the centre for the trade between the producers and the London dealers.

A chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes.


loft bed

A type of elevated bed, where the bed frame is similar to that of a bunk bed with the lower bunk missing, allowing the use of the area beneath the bed


chopstick rest

A small ornament on which a pair of chopsticks may be placed to prevent them from becoming contaminated or rolling off the table.


chawl

Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.

I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!

2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India:

Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.

2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 419:

A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.


slotted spoon

Using a slotted spoon, remove the peel and nuts from the syrup; set aside.

2013 February 17, Anissa Helou, The Observer:

A large spoon with slots in it used to drain food.


cheese knife

(cheesemaking) A spatula used to break down curd.


monk chair

A kind of rectangular wooden bench or armchair.


line-dry

en-verb

line-dry (third-person singular simple present line-dries, present participle line-drying, simple past and past participle line-dried)

line-dries (present singular third-person)
line-drying (participle present)
line-dried (participle past)
line-dried (past)


slut's wool

slut (“a slovenly, untidy person (archaic)”) + -'s + wool.

There have been a great many things to be seen to, in order to make everything cosy, since Mr. Walsh had developed bachelor's habits after the death of his first wife, and some things had become none too savoury. I had a large array of cobwebs and hanks of slut's wool to sweep out from under the beds, and also a fair deal of scrubbing and scouring to do.

1996, Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, slang) Accumulated dust, fluff, hair, etc., that tends to occur indoors in areas not regularly dusted, such as under heavy furniture.


microapartment

Coordinate term: microhome

While there’s no reliable data on micro-housing, some notable policies and projects are popping up on that front too. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg waived the city’s zoning standards to allow micro-apartments.

2016 December 28, Dan Hernandez, “Is an even smaller New York apartment the key to sustainable living?”, in The Guardian:

Another big player in this sector is the London-based developer Inspired Asset Management, which has created hundreds of “micro-apartments”, many of them located in Croydon, south London.


microhousing

“All the technologies I describe in my novel already exist,” she said. “Automised job appraisals, AI-generated scripts, micro-housing, the coupling of surveillance and insurance, the burning council estates: it’s all already here. You just have to look at it and join the dots.”

2019 June 30, Philip Oltermann, quoting Sibylle Berg, “German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain”, in The Guardian:


shucking knife

A type of knife designed for shucking oysters, with a short, sturdy double-edged blade.


pie iron

An electrical device for making sandwiches.


Slanket

Blend of sleeved + blanket, a trademark.

A wearable body-length blanket with sleeves.


tulou

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土樓／土楼 (tǔlóu)

A fortified Chinese rural dwelling made from earth, unique to the Hakka in the mountainous areas in southeastern Fujian.


sauna suit

A garment made from waterproof fabric, designed to make the wearer sweat, and often worn while exercising.


BPO

en-noun

BPO (countable and uncountable, plural BPOs)

broker's price opinion
broker's price opinion#English

(real estate) Initialism of broker's price opinion.


Empire

However, the first style of this century was known as Empire furniture. It was a derivative of the French Empire furniture, popular at that time.

1997, Mark McGrail, Furniture Brasses: A Short History of English Furniture Fittings, Armac Brassworks, →ISBN, page 21:

(fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).

...and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement among the initiated.

1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 17:

(of a woman's dress) Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.


tonjon

The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.

1925, George Nathaniel Curzon, British Government in India, volume II, page 21:

The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago.

1931 June, Frank E. Bushby, "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XLI, Nos. 81–82, p. 139

(South Asia, chiefly historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.


Eames chair

Designed by Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company.

An iconic easy chair of the 1950s, made from plywood and leather.


sensory garden

A garden designed to incorporate scent, sound, etc. so as to be accessible and enjoyable for visitors who may have sensory impairments.


widow foreclosure

widow foreclosure (plural widow foreclosures)

(real estate) Foreclosure on a reverse mortgage after the deedholder passes away, while the spouse resides on the property.


rice paddle

As soon as the rice is cooked, immediately turn it out into a large shallow bowl or onto a platter and spread out gently with a rice paddle or wooden spatula.

2003, Jeffrey Alford, Seductions of Rice, page 215:

A kitchen utensil used to stir and serve rice.


hanging garden

An artistic garden or a small urban farm: attached to or built on a wall.

A garden formed in terraces rising one above another, like those of Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon.


massage table

A table used by massage therapists to position the client to receive a massage.


zaisu

A traditional Japanese chair with no legs but a normal back.


crab fork

A very small fork for extracting flesh from a crab or lobster.


Hampton Court

Richmond upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames#English

A former royal palace, now a tourist attraction, in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1568).


HOA

homeowner association
homeowner association#English

(real estate) Initialism of homeowner association.


homeowner association

homeowner association (plural homeowner associations)

(real estate) A private association formed by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling homes and lots in a residential subdivision.

kodinomistajien yhdistys

do not exist in Finland, but used when discussing other countries


love pillow

My favorite is the white satin heart-shaped honeymoon love pillow of cloves, mint and rose potpourri.

1985, The Herb Quarterly - Issues 25-32, page 45:

To secure lasting, blissful love from a nascent romance, a love pillow can cast a powerful, binding spell.

2014, Cerridwen Greenleaf, The Witches' Love Spell Book: For Passion, Romance, and Desire, →ISBN:

When the plants came up, she dried the leaves and sewed them into “love pillows.”

A small decorative pillow, filled with sweet-smelling herbs or flowers, given as a token of love or as a love charm.


PMC

(real estate) Initialism of property management company or corporation.


stately home

The stately homes of England
How beautiful they stand,
To prove the upper classes
Have still the upper hand,
Tho' the fact that they have to be rebuilt
And frequently mortgaged to the hilt
Is inclined to take the guilt
Off the gingerbread.

The tax man's taken all my dough
And left me in my stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon

'There's just something nice about the idea that you can move without being seen - that you can go down there and come up here. I grew up in a stately home,' he continued without a trace of boastfulness, 'and there actually was a secret passage. [...]'

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 266–267:

(British) Synonym of country house, especially one owned by the aristocracy


rent-controlled

‘I have no money,’ she said simply. ‘This apartment is rent-controlled.’

2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 288:


nature table

A table on which items collected from nature, such as seeds, rocks, birds' nests, etc., are displayed in order to teach children about the natural world.


chap lau chu

chap lau chu (plural chap lau chus or chap lau chu)

chap lau chus (plural)
chap lau chu (plural)

Singapore, original Hokkien pronunciation

[t͡säp̚˩ lɑʊ˩ t͡sʰuˑ˩]

Borrowed from Hokkien 十樓厝 (cha̍p-lâu-chhù, “ten-storey house”). Originating in the 1960s, with the building of pioneering HDB satellite flats.

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Now empty, Singapore's chap lau chu in Commonwealth are the highlight of a quirky showcase… A group of recent Nanyang Technological University (NTU) graduates have zoomed in on the chap lau chu, Singapore's first 10-storey flats, built in 1962 by the Housing Board in Commonwealth Drive. … While the chap lau chu were not the tallest flats ever built - the Singapore Improvement Trust, the predecessor of the Housing Board, built the now- demolished 14-storey Forfar House in Queenstown in the 1950s

2014 July 6, Kezia Toh, “Ghost town in Commonwealth Drive comes alive”, in The Straits Times (Singapore):

Even as the years go by, chap lau chu still binds me to my childhood friends, many of whom have moved away to start their own families.

2015 August 20, Aw Cheng Wei, “My fond memories of 'chap lau chu'”, in The Straits Times (Singapore):

The cluster of 10-storey blocks of flats also referred to as Chap Lau Chu, while not aesthetically pleasing in the context of today’s public housing designs, served as the face of the HDB’s public housing efforts and were featured on the backs of the new nation’s very first one dollar currency note.

2015 October 2, Jerome Lim, “Goodbye to the $1 flats”, in OMY:

The chap kau chus were very alluring to everyone who passed by the dilapidated estate, attracting long gazes and inducing slower footsteps.

2015 November 5, Bryan Chua, “A Forgotten Past: Bidding Farewell To Commonwealth Drive Blocks 74 to 79”, in The Smart Local:

The seven blocks of brown and beige-coloured flats were the country's first 10-storey flats, and were colloquially known as chap lau chu...

2017 October 5, Fabian Koh, “Normanton Park sold en bloc: Singapore's old housing estates that are going, going, gone”, in The Straits Times (Singapore):

(Singapore, colloquial) A ten-storey housing flat built by the Singapore Housing and Development Board (HDB) in the 1960s (now mostly vacated).


ice cream scoop

en-noun

ice cream scoop (plural ice cream scoops)

A handheld scoop with a lever that helps the user dig through hard substances, most commonly cold ice cream.


dipper well

A small sink with a constant flow of water, used to store utensils used in food preparation and prevent bacterial growth.


disher

A type of scoop with a lever that helps the user dig through hard substances such as ice cream.


grandfather chair

grandfather chair (plural grandfather chairs)


clothes stand

A simple upright piece of furniture, such as a pole with pegs, for hanging clothes on.


massage chair

A chair designed so that a massage therapist can easily access the head, shoulders, and back of the seated person.


wingback chair

A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught.


truck farm

(chiefly US) A small-scale farm larger than a market garden but smaller than a full-scale farm involving the use of tractors or livestock.


blanket bath

(British) an all-over wash given to a person who is confined to bed or bedridden.


ghost home

The house is an example of what is popularly referred to as a "ghost home," a property owned by a nonresident (sometimes noncitizen) who has no plans on ever moving in.

2015 April 24, Joshua Alvarez, “Real Estate: Are ‘ghost homes’ becoming a problem?”, in Palo Alto Online, US, retrieved 2018-04-27:

So then we get to the deliberate ghost home investors. How do we tell that the empty flat has been purposely left unoccupied?

2017 May 13, Jimmy Thomson, "Ghost investment properties could be harder to exorcise than it seems," domain.com (Australia) (retrieved 27 April 2018)

The outcome of the new tax is being watched closely as cities around the world struggle with the rise of so-called ghost homes: scarcely used residences in prime urban locations seen by investors as a safe way to park their cash.

2018 April 26, Natalie Obiko Pearson, “Ghost-home tax fills Vancouver coffers but rentals remain scarce”, in Financial Post, Canada, retrieved 2018-04-27:

(idiomatic, real estate) A residence intentionally kept vacant by an absentee owner, especially a foreign investor, as a financially safe asset to be liquidated at a convenient time.


hide-a-bed

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From a trademark, presumably from hide a bed or hideaway bed.

In addition forty-eight hide-a-beds were replaced in the Northwood III project and ninety-five hide-a-beds were reconditioned. Twelve refrigerators were replaced in Northwood II apartments.

1964, The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year 1964-1965, University of Michigan:

Looking around the room, Timothy saw that its far wall contained two more hide-a-beds, both of them unmade.

2004, Alfred D. Byrd, Through the Gate of Horn:


lady's chair

A curved Victorian chair designed to complement a woman's figure.


spring mattress

spring mattress (plural spring mattresses)

A mattress in which springs of twisted wire are used to support the stuffed part.


blockface

(real estate) The side of a block that faces a given street.


passenger seat

Coordinate term: driver's seat

(automotive) A seat in a vehicle for a passenger, especially the front seat next to the driver in a motor vehicle.


mixed-use

(real estate) Of an urban development: blending residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and have routes that connect them for pedestrians.


chest freezer

A long, low freezer that is opened from above, as opposed to the vertical kind with a front-facing door.


Lord's Table

(Christianity) The table at which the Lord's Supper is held, or on which the elements are laid.


dustpan and brush

dustpan and brush (plural dustpans and brushes or dustpan and brushes)

dustpans and brushes (plural)
dustpan and brushes (plural)

As my tone admitted of no excuses, he said, “Yes, sir,” and ran off to fetch his dustpan and brushes.

1910 August-September, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer, Harper's Magazine:

A matching dustpan and brush, manufactured and sold as a single item, and often fitting together (typically made from brass if for use with a coal fire, or of plastic for general domestic use).

rikkalapio ja -harja

set of matching brush and pan for housework


Hofburg

A week later, via the prescribed channels, he requested an audience with His Majesty, and one morning, three weeks after that, he found himself face to face with His Supreme Commander-in-Chief in the Hofburg.

2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 14:

In the 1780s however these were just a couple of strands in the mayhem of Josephine reform, with decrees streaming out of the Hofburg […] at an astounding rate.

2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 266:

(chiefly historical) The principal residence of the Habsburg dynastic rulers (and, later, of the president of Austria), located in Vienna; (metonymically), the Habsburg regime.


headsheet

If he is inclined to take a nap after dinner, ' his stomak to digest,' kerchief and comb, pillow and headsheet are to be got ready, and he is not to be allowed to sleep too long.

To said Duglas Sheffeild second best bed at Ealinge, chaiers. stooles, creepers, fyer pann, tongues and other furniture in the chamber; also little basin and silver candlestick which I usually have in my chamber etc.; also a silver tonne and porringer, Cambrick sheetes, headsheet, pillowbeers, and things belonging to child bed;

1902 -, The Genealogical Magazine - Volumes 12-14, page 12:

In 1494 the two large pillows had been covered by a headsheet which seems to have fallen out of fashion in the sixteenth century as there are very few amongst Henry VIII's goods (12686).

2012, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London:

(historical) A cloth that covers the pillows at the head of a bed, protecting them from hair oils, etc.


tenant at will

(law, real estate, property law) One who holds lands at the will of the owner.


Japanese mandoline

Japanese mandoline (plural Japanese mandolines)

A type of kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables, distinguished from a traditional ("French") mandoline by having a diagonal blade and generally being smaller and of lighter construction.


pizza pan

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A pan specialized for making US-style pizzas, similar to a pie pan, cookie sheet, or paella pan, frequently with a perforated bottom. (in making an Italian pizza, the flattened dough is placed directly on the floor of the oven)


physic garden

From physic + garden, after French jardin médicinal.

After they had visited the physic garden, the university, the anatomical hall, and every other thing that was recommended to their view, they returned to Rotterdam, and held a consultation upon the method of transporting themselves to England.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(now historical) A botanical garden where plants are grown for medicinal purposes.


shabby chic

First use appears c. 1901 in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. See cite below.

To be sure, she wasn't stylish--one would hardly look for that at Madame's--nor was there anything about her costume that suggested even the shabby chic.

1901, John Albert Sleicher (editor), Frank Leslie (contributor), Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper - Volume 92, page 139:

Are they shabby chic or just shabby? Are there places for people to sit and chat, to read, watch the sun set, or enjoy the views?

2007, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Bed and Breakfast: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 54:

Some furniture is described as shabby chic. I am just shabby. A person would not be concerned about spilling wine on me, much less my rug.

2009, Charles A. Shoemake, Apotheosis of My Butterfly, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 162:

Can the rumpled elegance and mismatched opulence of shabby chic find happiness with cutting edge digital tools and techniques? We say yes, it can — even though shabby chic is perhaps the most difficult style to do well digitally because […]

2011, Jeanne Wines-Reed, Joan Wines, Digital Scrapbooking For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 72:

Pros: quirky character; beautiful setting. Cons: sometimes shabby rather than shabby chic; not much to do in vicinity; minimum stay required.

2012, Fodor's, Fodor's England 2013: with the Best of Wales, Fodor's Travel

(also attributive) A form of interior design where furnishings are either chosen for their appearance of age and signs of wear and tear or where new items are distressed to achieve the appearance of an antique.


white land

white land (countable and uncountable, plural white lands)

So called because it is not shaded on the map.

(real estate) Land not included in a plan for development, demolition, etc.


saute pan

Although a cast-iron frying pan will brown food extremely well (and can serve if you don't want to buy a saute pan), a saute pan has higher, straighter sides and is available in large sizes.

2002, Deborah Krasner, The Flavors of Olive Oil: A Tasting Guide and Cookbook, page 53:

A piece of cookware that has straight sides and a large surface area, both of which are ideal for tasks like searing meat or reducing a pan sauce.


extractor fan

Injector testing under pressure has never presented any difficulty. It is carried out in a small, dust-free cubicle fitted with an extractor fan and the meter calibration is checked annually.

1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, page 264:

A type of fan designed to remove moisture from a room, or dust or fumes from certain environments.


horse litter

/ˈhɔːsˌlɪtə/

A litter pulled or borne by one horse or borne on poles borne by two or more horses.

takhtrawan

enclosed Middle Eastern & South Asian form


barber chair

en-verb

barber chair (third-person singular simple present barber chairs, present participle barber chairing, simple past and past participle barber chaired)

barber chairs (present singular third-person)
barber chairing (participle present)
barber chaired (participle past)
barber chaired (past)

A severely leaning tree which is greater than 12 inches on the stump can "barber chair" by splitting prematurely during the felling cut so that the butt of the main tree trunk pivots upward toward the chainsaw user's head, if special felling techniques are not used.

1985, N.Y. Forest Owner, New York Forest Owners Association, page 193:

Figure 4-6 A shows a tree that barber chaired when the back cut was too low. Figure 4-6 B shows why it's called a “barber chair”.

1987, Dave Roberts, Pipe & Excavation Contracting, Craftsman Book Company, →ISBN, page 148:

This is because the trunk can “barber chair” before it falls.

2012, Frank Philbrick, Stephen Philbrick, The Backyard Lumberjack, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:


Clorox

Clorox (third-person singular simple present Cloroxes, present participle Cloroxing, simple past and past participle Cloroxed)

Cloroxes (present singular third-person)
Cloroxing (participle present)
Cloroxed (participle past)
Cloroxed (past)

From the Clorox brand; a blend of chlorine + sodium hydroxide, its two main ingredients.

(transitive, informal) To sanitize with chemicals; to remove dirt from a place or object by means of chemicals.


camp stool

A lightweight, folding chair designed to be used when camping.


rocking stool

The Garda van was parked in the yard, and the two young Gards were struggling to get the rocking-stool out of the back.

2016, L.E. Hartley, The Broken Mirror, →ISBN, page 273:

He continued to stare out the window, accompanied by Johnny's groans and the rhythmic squeaking of the rocking stool.

1990, Robert Upton, A killing in real estate: an Amos McGuffin mystery, →ISBN, page 155:


air fryer

Genericized trademark of Airfryer, a brand name introduced by Philips in 2010.


Christiansborg Palace

a palace and government building on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the seat of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget), the Danish Prime Minister's Office, and the Supreme Court of Denmark.


bath chair

Watkin attended the opening of Marylebone station in a bath chair, having recently suffered a stroke.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 76:

A chair that can be used in a bath (bathtub), coming in different sizes for babies and adults.


planter's chair

en-noun

planter's chair (plural planter's chairs)

Then he snored gently, the dog clankingly searching for fleas beside the planter’s chair, unaware as yet of her booked passage to India.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 203:

A type of wooden one-person armchair with wickerwork backing, designed to be used in tropical climates.


pickle fork

ref

By John R. Towers, c. 1936, from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., USA.

ball-and-socket joint
ball-and-socket joint

A long-handled tool with two prongs used to unseat ball-and-socket joints.


egg spoon

From egg + spoon. Known to be attested since at latest 1759.

[T]he egg spoon must also be untarnishable—stainless steel, or horn. I've never seen a gold egg spoon, but I'm sure it would do. Whatever the material, the spoon has to have a small bowl with a fine edge on it: a thick edge can't coax all the egg white off the inside of the shell. The handle is short, for good balance and easy handling. An egg spoon is a tiny implement that, like the Viennese breakfast, cannot be improved.

2017, Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, “Without Egg”, in No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, part 4 (Rewards), page 176:

A spoon, usually smaller than a teaspoon, which is used for eating a boiled egg from a hole made in the shell; the bowl of the spoon is shaped to make it easier to scoop out the contents of the eggshell.

cuillère à œuf

spoon used for eating a boiled egg from a hole made in the shell


grapefruit spoon

en-noun

grapefruit spoon (plural grapefruit spoons)

A spoon with a pointed and/or serrated tip designed for separating the flesh of a grapefruit from its rind.


cocktail fork

From cocktail + fork; cocktail may refer either to:
* a dish consisting of small pieces of fruit, vegetables, or seafood with a dressing, usually served chilled in a glass as an appetizer; or
* a mixed alcohol beverage such as a martini, which is often garnished with an olive.

Oyster and cocktail forks are placed at the extreme right of the cover beyond the teaspoons, or they may be laid across the right side of the service plate underlining the cocktail glass or the oyster service.

1942, Ruth M. Lusby, “Unit 1. Preparing and Closing the Serving Station.”, in Training Restaurant Sales Personnel: A Teacher’s Manual for Use in the Vocational Training of Restaurant Sales Personnel (Vocational Division Bulletin; no. 222; Business Education Series; no. 15), Washington, D.C.: Federal Security Agency; U.S. Office of Education; United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part IV (Work of Table-service Salespersons), page 86:

No fairy tale this. Just the story of Soviet slave labor in icy camps, dumping millions of pounds of fish for your dainty cocktail forks each month—and so beginning to kill off a multi-million dollar American fishing industry, canneries, boatbuilding and gear production.

1950 April 19, Russell V[ernon] Mack, “Russian Crab Imports: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Russell V. Mack of Washington”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 81st Congress, Second Session: Appendix (United States House of Representatives), volume 96, part 14, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A2862, column 2:

[page 944, column 1] Cocktail fork—used for sea foods. It is a short, slender fork about ½ inch wide at the prong end of the fork. […] [page 945, column 3] On the left are all the forks except the cocktail fork, which is laid to the extreme right of the knives when placed.

1986, “Your Meats”, in Ruth Berolzheimer, editor, Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook (A Perigee Book), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Group, published March 1988, pages 944 and 945:

We just returned from a cruise where there were eleven pieces of flatware on the table for dinner: three knives and a soup spoon to the right of the plate, four forks to the left, and a cocktail fork, teaspoon, and demitasse spoon above the plate. Could you please explain the function of each?

1990, Judith Martin, “Dealing with the Public”, in Miss Manners’ Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 364:

Mock Meatballs […] Serve in a shallow serving dish with cocktail forks or toothpicks.

1991 December, Denis Jaricot, “The Art of the Hors d’Oeuvre”, in Paul Obis Jr., editor, Vegetarian Times, number 172, Oak Park, Ill.: Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 3:

[H]ow could you talk a raving lunatic out of drinking his own urine or stabbing his invalid grandmother a hundred times with a cocktail fork?

1998 February 1, T[homas] C[oraghessan] Boyle, “One Slit’s Enough”, in Riven Rock, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 234:

To remove [crab] meat, twist off claws and legs; use a nutcracker to crack shells at the joints. Remove meat with a small cocktail fork or nutpick. Break the body; remove any remaining meat.

2005, “Fish & Shellfish”, in Lori Fox, Cheri Olerud, Kristi Hart, editors, Betty Crocker Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, 10th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 257:

Remove the shrimp from the marinade and set them on a cutting board. Using a sharp, thin knife, cut each shrimp in half lengthwise, working from head to tail. Stick each halved shrimp onto the end of a cocktail fork.

2005, Carolyn Miller, Sharon Smith, “North Beach/Chinatown”, in Savoring San Francisco: Recipes from the City’s Neighborhood Restaurants, 2nd edition, San Francisco, Calif.: Silverback Books, →ISBN, page 72:

My mother had always eaten straight out of jars and cans, with a cocktail fork as her sole utensil. It was one of her peculiarities. / "Hi, Ma." / Her cocktail fork was balanced between her thumb and index finger, close to her mouth, as if a joint that had just been passed to her and she wasn't sure what to do with it.

2017, Alison McGhee, Never Coming Back, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 10:

A small fork usually with two or three tines, used for eating dishes served as appetizers (such as fruit cocktails and shrimp cocktails), and for picking up olives and other small snacks.

widelczyk

small fork used for eating dishes served as appetizers, and for picking up small snacks


meatfork

Gilbert grasped a carving knife and a steel in his great hands, and after setting up a briefly appetizing clangor, speared the roast to its heart with the long tines of a meatfork and carved off rich savory slabs of the rare beef.

2000, Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, page 15:

A large fork for turning meat or holding it in place for carving.


dressing mirror

dressing mirror (plural dressing mirrors)

The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:

A large mirror, often as a separate piece of furniture, in which a full-body reflection can be viewed when getting dressed.


drink table

The drawing-room seemed an acre of polished floorboards, with complete units for sitting or lounging — drink-table, settee, arm-chairs — placed at intervals along the walls, by the windows that looked down at river and jungle beyond, in the body of the echoing room.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 583:

A table located at an event or venue on which beverages are placed so that drinks can be supplied to guests.


manual scavenging

(India) The work of cleaning out pit latrines.


bar chair

→ Japanese: バーチェアー (bācheā) / → Japanese: ばーちぇあー (bācheā)

Past the bar was a little area in an alcove that contained a few tall, round tables and bar chairs.

2004, Kathy Love, Wanting What You Get, New York: Zebra Books, published by Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, (eBook):

He ordered a Corona, stretched and groaned as he lowered himself into a too small bar chair.

2005, Buff Brazy Given, Simon’s Story: A Novel, [sine loco]: Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 161:

Bar chairs were heavy with high backs that prevented many a drunk’s reverse gainer.

2005, R. J. Grubb, Mordray’s Whale, New York/Lincoln/Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 130:

The door was guarded by a retired cop named Frankie the Golfer, who sat by the door in an upholstered bar chair that he leaned back against the wall.

2013, John Dufresne, No Regrets, Coyote, New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, (eBook):

Roy pulled his bulk off the bar chair. Joe held it for Megan, who had to step onto the bar rail to lift herself onto the chair.

2013, Richard Rose, The Lazarus Conspiracies, Honolulu, HI, USA: Savant Books, →ISBN, page 154:

A tall chair-like seat usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.


Splayd

Brand name. Perhaps from splay (“to slant, slope or spread outwards”) or spoon and blade.

(trademark) An eating utensil combining the functions of spoon, knife, and fork.


boomerang pillow

boomerang pillow (plural boomerang pillows)

A pillow with a right-angled bend in the middle, resembling the shape of a traditional returning boomerang.


pastry fork

A three- or four-tined fork designed for eating pastries and similar desserts from a plate held in the other hand.


scavenger sale

The remaining lots were subsequently lost on scavenger sales because of some $140,000 in delinquent taxes.

1947, Reports of the Tax Court of the United States, volume 8, page 906:

(real estate) The sale of a property whose previous tenants were ejected for not paying rent.


ice-cream chair

ice-cream chair (plural ice-cream chairs)

From the use of this type of chair in ice cream parlors.

Another innovative metal form was the “ice-cream” chair, so called because its portability and inexpensiveness made it practical for use in luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors everywhere.

1985, Marshall B. Davidson, Elizabeth Stillinger, The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 186:

I'd worn a pale yellow blouse and skirt for Grandma's service and now I looked like a Neiman-Marcus sack that had been dragged ostentatiously around the rest of the mall, stuffed with items from Women's Tall & Oversize, crumpled into an ice-cream chair at the food court, and dipped into a fountain while searching for pennies to throw.

2008, Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair: A Novel, page 55:

At the small table he grasps its matching ice-cream chair opposite Cossetti's, sits and palms a worn deck of cards.

2012, Georgette Beck, The Song of Sylvania Square, page 26:

A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.


Barcelona chair

Barcelona chair (plural Barcelona chairs)

From Barcelona, Spain, where the International Exhibition of 1929, at which the chair was first exhibited, was held.

The Barcelona Chair was designed in 1929 for the German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.

2001, Kimberly Elam, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition:

The Barcelona chair commanded the staggering price of $550, however, and that was wholesale.

2009, Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House, page 48:

Marble, travertine, brass and plate glass were deployed to majestic effect, and within the cool, calm interior the Barcelona chairs and accompanying ottomans took on a monumental presence.

2009, Design Museum Enterprise Limited, Fifty Chairs that Changed the World:

Following his move to America in 1938, he did not come up with any new furniture designs; the Barcelona chair remains his most famous work.

A chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe, that has a curved metal frame consisting of a gentle curve that shapes the back and front legs intersecting with a shallow S-shaped curve that shapes the seat and back legs, no arms, and padded leather cushions.


predeveloper

(real estate) An agent who acquires land for the purpose of later development.


side chair

An armless chair, usually used in dining room settings.


reception chair

reception chair (plural reception chairs)


pancake turner

Use the pancake turner to flip to the other side, adding more oil if necessary, and continue cooking until set in the center but still slightly juicy within.

2014, Penelope Casas, 1,000 Spanish Recipes, page 125:

(US) A spatula; fish slice; kitchen turner; cooking turner.


tyebble

A dialectal reflex of Middle English table, featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—

1840, R. Emery, “Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water”, in The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect, →ISBN, page 303:


Polish bed

The style originated in 18th-century Poland.

A kind of canopy bed draped with a baldacchin.


milking table

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(colloquial) A type of massage table containing an extra hole for the penis, so a man can be masturbated or fellated from below.


deep clean

(neologism) Any thorough cleansing, especially one conducted in order to disinfect a place that has or may have been contaminated with a disease vector such as a virus, bacteria, etc.


deep clean

en-verb

deep clean (third-person singular simple present deep cleans, present participle deep cleaning, simple past and past participle deep cleaned)

deep cleans (present singular third-person)
deep cleaning (participle present)
deep cleaned (participle past)
deep cleaned (past)


fairy garden

A fanciful ornamental garden with miniature buildings etc. supposed to house fairies.


cutting garden

North of the rose garden and connecting with it is a cutting garden, which is bordered by a hedge of climbing roses.

1916 March 10, Auburn Seminary Record, volume 12:

All the plants in a cutting garden are grown specifically for flower arranging (as opposed to a general diversified landscape), but they are positioned to create a pleasing garden design.

1999, Jan Gertley, Dried Flowers for All Seasons: Creating the Fresh-Flower Look Year-Round:

The sunflower series, the irises, the cutting gardens of Provence, his series of floral bouquets while living in Paris, all are images that remain indelible in our minds among his tremendous outpouring of work.

2001, Derek Fell, Van Gogh's Gardens, page 10:

A garden designed to provide flowers to be cut and used in arrangements.


sky garden

A garden in or on a tall building, high above ground level.


storage heater

An electrical heater which stores thermal energy during the evening or at night when electricity is available at lower cost, and releases the heat during the day as required.

Nachtspeicherheizung

electrical heater which stores thermal energy at night and releases the heat during the day


off the plan

Buying off the plan has become a more popular way of buying property in recent years.

2010, Melissa Opie, Stephen Zamykal, Property Rich: Secure Your Financial Freedom:

Of a building, especially a residence, from the plan of a proposed building before it is actually built.

楼花

building that is put up for sale before construction is completed

期房

unfinished housing to be paid for in advance by the buyer and then completed within a certain time frame


coin laundry

→ Japanese: コインランドリー (koinrandorī)

Blend of coin + laundry.
From originally being a self-service laundry facility with coin-operated laundry machines.

laundromat

Synonym of laundromat, launderette (“self-service laundry”); regardless of whether it uses coins or not.


rotating chair

He sat in a rotating chair behind a broad table, which was covered with books, maps, and diagrams.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:


basket chair

Instead of answering, Professor Challenger entered, shook hands with myself and Lord John, bowed with ponderous insolence to Professor Summerlee, and sank back into a basket-chair, which creaked and swayed beneath his weight.

A chair in which the seat and back are made of wickerwork.


potwasher

A person who washes pots and dishes, especially in a restaurant; a dishwasher.

A machine for washing dishes; a dishwasher.


blue bag

‘Nolly, Nolly,’ observed the Doctor, ‘I wish your maid would stop your foolish mouth with a blue-bag.’

1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 73:

A bag containing alkaline blue laundry powder, used for whitening clothes.


flap seat

After several minutes, Liebknecht stood barefoot in a suit of long winter underwear. Some of its buttons were missing and the flap seat was baggy from too much laundering.

1954, Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, New York: Simon and Schuster, Book 4, p. 273:

They wrapped themselves up to their eyes in thick sweaters, heavy shirts, wool socks and long union suits with flap seats.

1970, Winston M. Estes, chapter 9, in Another Part of the House,, New York: Avon, published 1978, page 129:

Grant put on an oversized flannel nightshirt and fuzzy elephant slippers. Asa had baggy red footies with a flap seat. Even Patty wore old pj’s.

1988, Norma Fox Mazer, chapter 19, in Silver, New York: Avon, published 1989, page 107:

A flap on the part of an undergarment or night garment that covers the buttocks.


kachelofen

Propst's stoves are more expensive than many manufactured metal stoves, of course, but they are not as costly as imported kachelofens, which start at $3,000 to $1,000 and can run much higher […]

1985, Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, volume 12, page 41:

Heidiger, who was born in Germany and grew up with a kachelofen, says he never paid much attention to the stoves until h moved to Ontario […]

Each apartment was heated individually by kachelofens, the typical ceramic stoves indigenous to this region.

2000, Norbert Schoenauer, 6,000 Years of Housing, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

'Don't know why the good signora doesn't have one of those kachelofens here in her front hall, just to be more welcoming.' Jane smiled, not because the notion of kachelofens here at the foot of the stairs was so preposterous, but because […]

2012, The Duke's Governess Bride, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 152:

"Americans tend to rely on woodstoves more than kachelofens." […] Once Americans realize how much nicer and more energy efficient it is to have a gentle, radiant heat (versus the burning hot surfaces of a Jotul or Fisher stove), I think they will lean toward kachelofens.

2013, Rhonda Eleish, Edie Van Breems, Reflections on Swedish Interiors, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 82:

A German type of ceramic tile stove or cocklestove which captures heat from periodic burning of fuel such as wood and radiates it over a long period to heat a living space.


roasting tin

(cooking, UK) A kitchen utensil used for roasting.


roasting pan

(cooking, US) A kitchen utensil used for roasting in an oven.


tea whisk

a kitchen utensil shaped and used like a shaving brush but typically made of bamboo rather than badger hair and manipulated above matcha to dissolve it and make it foam.


bar table

(law) A table in a common law courtroom at which advocates sit or stand.


sparver

From Middle English sperver (“sparrow-hawk, canopy”), from Old French esprevier, from Old Dutch *sparwari (“sparrow-hawk”, literally “sparrow-eagle”).

der

And ſo then every of them ſticke up the aungell about the bedde and to lette downe the corteyns of the ſayd bedde or ſparuer.

c. 1525, The oolde ordre of makyng the Kynges bedd; republished as L. C. Brooke, “XX. The Ceremonial of making the King's Bed”, in Archaeologica, volume 4, 1777, →DOI:

And I geue vnto the ſame Elizabeth my wif the ſparuers and hangings of the ſame twoo beddes vſuallye occupied, and hanging ouer and about the ſame twoo beddes[…]

1558 April 29, Sir William Drurye, Will of Sir William Drurye [of Hawstede, Suffolk], Prerogative Court of Canterbury, page 1:

[…]a happie woman is ſeene in a white apron as often as in an embrodred kirtle, and hath as quiet ſleeps and as contented wakings in a bed of cloth as under a ſparver of tiſſue.

1591, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso, London: G. Miller, translation of original in Italian, published 1634, book V, page 39:


toasting fork

A GOOD toasting fork for the camp fire or outdoor fireplace can be made from a piece of No. 8 galvanized iron wire 6 ft. long.

1937 October, “Five attractive new designs you can work out from inexpensive materials”, in Popular Science, volume 131, number 4, Bonnier Corporation, page 96:

A fork with a long handle for toasting bread, marshmallows, or other small food items over an open fire.


Old Sparky

[…]and I think that, for most of those men, the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being clamped to the stout oak of “Old Sparky’s” legs.

1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile, page 3:

(US, slang) Nickname for an electric chair used for executions.


clearance rate

(crime, law enforcement) The proportion of crimes that are solved by the police with respect to the total number of crimes reported.


lease for lives

en-noun

lease for lives (plural leases for lives)

term of years determinable
term of years determinable

(law, England and Wales, historical) A kind of lease for a term of years determinable, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, which typically named three individuals – the "lives" – and determined upon the death of all three.


brotform

From German Brotform, from Brot (“bread”) + Form (“shape”).

A type of basket used to provide structure for breads during proofing.


Merlin chair

Named after its inventor, John Joseph Merlin (1735–1803).

She has a gay Turn, but Ill health has long confined her to a Merlin Chair, in wᶜʰ however She travels not incommodiously, and is wheeled about.

1797 September 19, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:

A type of early wheelchair, which the occupant propels by means of crank-handles in the armrests.


gaming chair

Two floors above, a young Sellafield employee sat in a gaming chair, working at a laptop with a joystick. He was manoeuvring an ROV fitted with a toilet brush – “a regular brush, bought at the store,” he said, “just kind of reinforced with a bit of plastic tube”.

December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:

An office chair-like chair designed for comfort during video gaming.


iBuyer

So iBuyers - these are companies like Opendoor, Redfin and Zillow. And they started doing this a few years ago - buying homes.

2021 November 8, Stacey Vanek Smith, “iBuyers, Zillow, and 'the lemons problem'”, in The Indicator from Planet Money, via NPR:

(real estate) A company which offers to buy real estate (usually residential) quickly for cash, often without the level of due diligence exercised by traditional buyers and using computer algorithms to determine price.


exchanging contracts

exchange of contracts
exchange of contracts#English

Alternative form of exchange of contracts.


exchange contracts

en-verb

exchange contracts (third-person singular simple present exchanges contracts, present participle exchanging contracts, simple past and past participle exchanged contracts)

exchanges contracts (present singular third-person)
exchanging contracts (participle present)
exchanged contracts (participle past)
exchanged contracts (past)

legal representative
legal representative

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, chiefly by legal practitioners) To create a contract for the disposition of an estate in land between negotiating parties, by a process which is immediately followed by the exchange of executed counterparts of the contract between each party's legal representative.


exchange of contracts

en-noun

exchange of contracts (plural exchanges of contracts)

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) The act of exchanging contracts.


fee simple absolute in possession

fee simple absolute in possession (uncountable)

From fee simple + absolute + in possession.

(law, England and Wales, formal, idiomatic) The unqualified and unrestricted ownership of an estate in land; freehold tenure.


term of years

(law, formal) An estate in land held under a lease which is not perpetual or indefinite in length, though in some cases may be contingent on some guaranteed occurrence.


rolling chair

He is now confined to Bed & Room, & has been out only in a Bath rolling Chair since we return'd from that Place this Spring after the Influenza.


effluxion of time

[...] we often fail to make sufficient allowance for the changes in standards brought about by the effluxion of time.

1944 March and April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:

(law, formal, idiomatic) The determination of a term of years due to the passage of time, rather than the occurrence of a specific event.


tea ball

Coordinate term: tea strainer

When using a tea ball, fill it to one-half full with tea leaves, leaving enough room in it for the leaves to expand.

1995, Campbell Dawn, The Tea Book, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:

A perforated spherical metal container that holds tea leaves for steeping or brewing in hot water.


term of years absolute

term of years absolute (plural terms of years absolute)

(law, England and Wales, formal, misleading) An estate in land held for a term of years of either a specified length or on a periodic basis, and which is not a term of years determinable (though may be determinable for other reasons); a leasehold estate in land.


term of years determinable

term of years determinable (plural terms of years determinable)

(law, England and Wales, formal, historical) An estate in land held for a term of years which determined on the deaths of certain individuals, or the cessation of certain life interests.


head tenant

(UK, real estate, informal) Synonym of lead tenant.


lead tenant

(UK, real estate) The tenant nominated to be the primary point of contact for a managed residential joint tenancy.


nominated tenant

nominated tenant (plural nominated tenants)

(UK, real estate) Synonym of lead tenant.


nursing chair

A kind of comfortable chair that was used for mothers to nurse their babies.


standing desk

A desk used for writing, reading or drawing while standing up or while sitting on a high stool.


air washer

A household appliance serving the combined functions of an air purifier and a humidifier; it can be a standalone appliance or be included as a part of an air conditioning system.


vacuum sealer

A machine to vacuum pack (to pack something in an airtight container from which some or all of the air is removed, creating a partial vacuum)

selladora al vacío f máquina de envasado al vacío


house trailer

(US) A prefabricated home built in a factory, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where it will be occupied.


cleanfluencer

Blend of clean + influencer, equivalent to clean + -fluencer.

Instagram 'cleanfluencer' Mrs Hinch says cleaning helped her tackle her anxiety.

2019, Laura Jane Williams, The Life Diet: How to Let in What Makes You Happy, and Let Go of Everything Else, unnumbered page:

He will never understand the joy I feel at being a cleanfluencer, nor feel the buzz I get when tens of my followers contact me to tell me how I've encouraged them to organise their clutter.

2020, J. A. Andrew, Behind Her Smile, unnumbered page:

In comparison to the Zoflora-scented cult that's grown up around @mrshinch, Lynsey Crombie, aka @lynsey_queenofclean, a blonde 40-year-old cleanfluencer from Petersborough, offers a cosier roster of domestic aphorisms.

2020, Sally Howard, The Home Stretch: Why It's Time to Come Clean About Who Does the Dishes, unnumbered page:

(neologism, rare) An influencer who gives advice on housekeeping and cleaning products.


amud

bor

Hebrew עַמּוּד

In many congregations it is customary for the Reader to chant Hamelekh while standing in his place or near the amud (prayer desk) and then to walk to it with a bowed head and to conclude, "Who is sitting on a high and lofty throne."

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 145:


meatsafe

Fredericks Furniture's Sadie Burton refreshes a baltic pine meatsafe with DIY chalk paint and glaze to give an aged look.

2021 January 7, Angie Tomlinson, “How to refresh your furniture”, in The West Australian:


scalping knife

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(dated, chiefly US) Any of a loosely defined class of ample-bellied knives that largely overlaps with other classes such as hunting knife, butcher knife, and bushcraft knife.


closing costs

(finance, real estate) Fees which are paid at the conclusion or closing of a real estate transaction.


freeze chest

That's what money's for. For automatic kitchens, extension, phones, giant freeze chests, colour TV, for inlaid tiles, for imported paintings, palm trees, oceans, for photo-mural wallpaper in the hallway, the bathroom, even the closets.

1966, Burt Blechman, Stations, published 1969, page 31:


dust ruffle

[…] the random Nordstrom shopping bag that was camped behind a dust ruffle […]

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:


Aeron

A river in Ceredigion, Wales, which flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron.


Aeron

Aerons were hailed as triumphs of industrial design.


Gatch bed

Named after its inventor Willis Dew Gatch.

A type of hospital bed fitted with jointed springs, which may be adjusted to various positions, in order to elevate a patient's head and knees.


Hollywood bed

A mattress sitting atop a box spring, supported by a metal frame or attached low legs, but lacking a footboard.


pencil-post bed

en-noun

pencil-post bed (plural pencil-post beds)

(furniture) A type of bed modeled after the English field bed, consisting of four slender, octagonal posts.


coffee spoon

A smaller version of the teaspoon, intended for use with the small type of coffee cup or demitasse.


legilium

A friend once went into an ecclesiastical furnishings outlet. "I'm looking for one of those collapsible lecterns that you can fold away after the service," he said. "I think you'll find our lecterns don't collapse, sir: it will be a legilium you'll be looking for," came the reply.

2004, Samuel Wells, Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Brazos Press, →ISBN, page 91:

In some churches it may be possible to place it next to the lectern or legilium, so that the light of the risen Christ illuminates the reading of the Word of God.

2008, Benjamin Gordon-Taylor, Simon Jones, Celebrating Christ's Appearing: Advent to Candlemas, London: SPCK, →ISBN, page 99:

Beautifully designed and equally beautifully executed, these amazing items - a super frontal and frontal altar cloth, burse, stole, veil, gospel marker, and legilium hanging - are now on show in the church for visitors and church-goers alike to wonder at and admire.

2011 November 16, View From Dorchester, number 263, page 16:

Sister Carol Elizabeth SSM at the legilium during the solemn eucharist

2019 November 22, Glyn Paflin, “Newman will help us on common faith, FiF hears”, in Church Times, image caption, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

In view of the rapid turnover of prime ministers, would it not help the economy if they stopped commissioning personalised lecterns and were loaned a simple folding legilium instead? You can get new ones for about £250.

2022 October 26, Alec Mitchell, quotee, “Rishi Sunak's competence is what matters – not his race”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian (Letters), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-14:


yogurt maker

ᶜWide range of traditional occupations with varying incomes such as yogurt makers, liver sellers, teahouse workers (Qahveh-chi), ice cream sellers, vegetable sellers, cloth sellers, shoemakers, carpenters, tailors, builders, blacksmiths, grocers, drapers, glass-blowers, (petty) brokers, “radiomakers,” iron sellers, “bicycle makers,” and similar occupations.

1993, Mansoor Moaddel, Class, Politics, and Ideology in the Iranian Revolution, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 117:

Yogurt was emerging as America’s favorite health food in an increasingly health-conscious society. Not only that, but yogurt was winning consumers by tasting good. It was leaving behind its reputation as a tart, curdled taste experience. It evolved from diet food, milk substitute, and the base for pungent sauces into an appealing dessert. As yogurt makers sweetened the product to appeal to the American palate, consumption soared.

1997, Gregory K. Ericksen, “Gary Hirshberg: Stonyfield Farm: ‘A Business Plan for the Future: Hope’”, in What’s Luck Got to Do with It? Twelve Entrepreneurs Reveal the Secrets Behind Their Success, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 147:

Here are some examples of businesses owned by foreign-based companies: Motel 6 is owned by Accor SA, a French company, and Dannon Co., the yogurt maker, is owned by Danone Group, also a French company.

2002, Larry R. Smeltzer, Donald J. Leonard, Geraldine E. Hynes, “Intercultural Managerial Communication”, in Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, part IV (Interpersonal Communication Strategies), page 210:

Yogurt makers have been as active as the cultures in their products over the past few years, coming up with a host of new creations, packaging, and pitches. Dannon launched la Crème, a premium full-fat yogurt “for people who don’t like yogurt.”

2002 March, “Cultural affairs”, in Consumer Reports, volume 67, number 3, Yonkers, N.Y.: Consumers Union, →ISSN, page 32, column 1:

We still got the milk the girls produced, though, buying it from our friends. It was a pivotal moment for us as yogurt makers, both emotionally and commercially. We had finally gotten past the notion that using milk from cows other than our own would somehow compromise our product.

2008, Gary Hirshberg, “Nurturing Those Who Nurture the Earth”, in Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 162:

As I mentioned in the first chapter, when I moved to Stonyfield Farm in the mid-’80s to live with Gary, I immediately went to work in the yogurt business. I worked part-time in the office and in sales, and part-time as a yogurt maker. […] When our best yogurt maker had to work the night shift and couldn’t find a babysitter for her son, yours truly would rock the boy to sleep.

2012, Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, For Better or for Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families, New York, N.Y.: An Inc. Original, →ISBN, pages 43 (To Love, Honor, and Report To) and 61–62 (Bed and Boardroom):

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yogurt, maker.


laundry sink

A very large sink installed in laundry rooms, intended for pre-washing particularly dirty clothes before using the machines.


bureau plat

Unadapted borrowing from French bureau plat.

ubor

Small feminized versions of the bureau plat reinforce rather than call into question the masculinity of the form. The reduced size, rounded corners, and porcelain plaques mounted on the bureau plat shown in figure 6.28 make it for a man’s office furniture while bringing it into stylistic conformity with the other small porcelain-mounted furniture that decorated the bedroom of its owner: the Russian grand duchess Maria Feodorovna.

2009, Dena Goodman, Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 230:

Ten cautious steps and five feet later, April spied a Louis XVI gilt-metal bureau plat, a pair of George III mahogany armchairs, a Charles X Savonnerie carpet, and one unbelievable mid-eighteenth-century gold girandole.

2014, Michelle Gable, A Paris Apartment, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 10:

A Victorian kingwood and rosewood bureau plat, in Louis XV style, with ormolu mounts, the top with a suede writing surface, above three frieze drawers with false fronts to the reverse, on cabriole legs.

2022, Judith Miller, Miller’s Antiques Handbook & Price Guide 2022–2023, London: Miller’s, Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 266:

The 19th century tulipwood bureau-plat table is in a similar style of renowned cabinetmaker Jacques-Laurent Cosson.

2022 October 19, Adam Dutton, “Hoard of 17th century treasure found in castle once owned by James Bond publisher”, in Mirror, archived from the original on 2021-11-07:


laundry soap

en-noun

laundry soap (countable and uncountable, plural laundry soaps)

A type of soap, sometimes bar soap but often powdered, intended for use in washing machines.


bar soap

bar soap (countable and uncountable, plural bar soaps)

Any type of soap prepared in the shape of a bar, comfortably sized to fit in the palm of one's hand.


honing steel

honing steel (countable and uncountable, plural honing steels)

A rod of steel, ceramic or diamond-coated steel used to restore keenness to dulled blade edges.


nanoapartment

A very small apartment, smaller than a microapartment.


two-top

two + top (“(a table for) a specified number of people in a restaurant”)

He conveyed the food order to the kitchen and then popped the top on the Pepsi can and passed it across the bar to me along with a glass of ice. I carried both to a two-top near the front window.

(restaurants) A table seating two diners.


star base

(furniture) A base for furniture, where multiple arms radiate out from a central post that supports the furniture.


Savonarola chair

Savonarola chair (plural Savonarola chairs)


suferia

From Swahili [Term?], some consider it an example of translanguaging.

I started coffee as Philip stirred breakfast to keep the eggs from burning on the bottom of the thin aluminum suferia (cooking put).

2009 May 27, Anthony Deland, Houses of Clay: A White Boy's Adventure in Africa, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, →ISBN, pages 37–38:

They kept watch, boiled chai in the suferia, and tried, constantly to make Simi open her mouth to drink, to swallow, to take the small sustenance that the sugar and tea and milk might give her.

2018 March 20, Adrienne Benson, The Brightest Sun: A Novel, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:

I peered inside and saw a pile of belongings—should sacks, tattered clothing, a towel, a wooden box, a suferia (cooking pot), plastic mugs and plates, straw mats and hats—the worldly goods of the poor.

2020 January 28, Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers:Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 3:

I am from Togo born after Communism / the sound of donuts frying in the morning / and oatmeal being stirred over the fire and under the stars / in the extra large suferia

2020 October 19, Amanda Nicole Gulla, Molly Hamilton Sherman, Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Creative Arts for Teachers and Teacher Educators, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:

A type of cooking pot popular in East Africa.

Springer International Publishing
W.W. Norton


cocktail shaker

cocktail shaker (plural cocktail shakers)

A device used to mix beverages (usually alcoholic) by shaking.


nstd

(logistics, furniture, computing) Abbreviation of nested.


Scotch dresser

Rare McIntosh rosewood Scotch Dresser probably designed by Tom Robertson.

2023 October 15 (last accessed), “Rare McIntosh rosewood Scotch Dresser”, in Vintage Retro, archived from the original on 2021-12-19:

A Victorian oak scotch dresser, the back with serpentine shaped shelf above a moulded top

2021 July 10, “A Victorian oak scotch dresser, the back with serpentine...”, in Lot-Art, retrieved 2023-10-15:

2023 October 15 (last accessed), “Beautiful Victorian Scotch Dresser With Laminated Mahogany from Approximately 1860-1870.”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Mariner Auctions:

A piece of furniture used to store and display crockery.


tiny house

Tiny houses come in all shapes and sizes, and the choices you will have to make in terms of utilities, design, mobility, will really affect the way you interact with that space.

2018, Tracey Harris, The Tiny House Movement: Challenging Our Consumer Culture, page 46:

The fundamental definition of a tiny house is that it is constructed from materials that aren't just considered to be renewable but also are eco-friendly also ^([sic]).


cyclonic vacuum cleaner

cyclonic vacuum cleaner (plural cyclonic vacuum cleaners)

A vacuum cleaner which operates using cyclonic separation.


infant safety seat

infant safety seat (plural infant safety seats)

Use an infant safety seat until your child is over 20 pounds and able to sit up alone. Keep your child facing backward as long as possible because it protects him from neck injuries.

1994, Department of Paediatrics, “Car Safety Seats”, in Infant Health Handbook, Gallup Indian Medical Center, page 22:

Place the infant safety seat, if at all possible, in the middle of the backseat—the safest spot in the car.

2008, Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, What to Expect the First Year, Workman Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 139:

Safety programs have targeted parents and children, and laws requiring seat belt use have been enacted. A successful educational program provided computer-assisted video instruction on using an infant safety seat to mothers before leaving the hospital after giving birth.

2020, Edward P. Sarafino, Timothy W. Smith, David B. King, Anita De Longis, Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions, Wiley, →ISBN, page 307:

child safety seat
child safety seat#English

Synonym of child safety seat, particularly versions designed for very young children.


Domestos

He's been drinking Domestos, no wonder he's clean round the bend.
He's so small he hires himself out to stand on top of wedding cakes.[…]

(Can we date this quote?), Roy Chubby Brown, George Proudman, Roy "Chubby" Brown - The Antiques Jokeshow - Jokes from the Attic - EBook, The Celebrity Gift Company Ltd:

He was expecting it to taste like Domestos, but in fact it was quite bearable. A bit like Russian sparkling wine without the bubbles. And sweeter. But he didn't fancy the idea of getting drunk on it. “That is, I thought I saw Sosnowski[…]

2010, Zygmunt Miloszewski, Entanglement, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 312:

Meanwhile, in the vicarage kitchen Joseph was preparing a new and subtle variation to his home-made greengage wine, happily oblivious to the fact it tasted like Domestos, while Maurice Tupham was walking across the High Street to[…]

2010 February 23, Jack Sheffield, Village Teacher, Random House, →ISBN, page 277:

Bryan continued to smoke
And fix us with fidgety eyes until one day
He drank Domestos
And his secret smile died.

2016, Trisha Broomfield, The Equator and other Disappointments, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 19:

[…] the southern end of Camden, so Mornington Crescent and Fitzrovia were awash with Domestica, which tasted like Domestos, and littered with the shards of intentionally cracked crockery. There was the famous late night carouser's kebab[…]

2019 March 7, Robert Elms, London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City, Canongate Books, →ISBN:

(He's probably shining a torch through his veins and drinking Domestos. Bon appétit, Donald.)

2021 January 5, Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder, Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

A (brand of) household cleaner which contains bleach.


balloon back

(historical, furniture) A chairback of rounded shape which tapers to form a balloon shape at the seat.


Lambeth Palace

(metonymically) The archbishopric of Canterbury.


mahannah

Alternative form of meeana, a kind of Indian litter.


jeonse

(real estate) A form of lease in the South Korean real estate market in which the lessee does not pay rent, but instead provides the landlord with a large lump sum deposit which is returned in full once the lease has determined, with the landlord profiting through investment of the deposit.


sauna blanket

“Sauna blankets claim to help de-stress, detox and reduce inflammation,” says Dr Perry. “They also raise your heart rate, which has all kinds of benefits for cardiac health.” Sounds too good to be true - and it might just be.

2022 March 16, Lauren Clark, “The best sauna blankets, for giving your mind and body the spa treatment (at home)”, in Glamour UK, archived from the original on 2024-05-02:

A large, flexible fabric blanket with built-in infrared heating elements.


sex pillow

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sex pillow.wav

A pillow designed to facilitate or enhance sexual intercourse.

seksityyny

A pillow designed to facilitate sexual intercourse


neck pillow

(sleep, furniture) Any pillow shaped to support the sleeper's neck, especially those used alone or outside of a bed.


wolse

(real estate) A lease in the South Korean real estate market in which rent is paid monthly.


banjeonse

Borrowed from Korean 반전세(半傳貰) (banjeonse, literally “half-jeonse”).

bor+

(real estate) A form of lease in the South Korean real estate market which is a hybrid between jeonse and wolse, in which the lessee provides the landlord with a smaller lump sum deposit than would be required with jeonse, while agreeing to pay a lower rate of monthly rent than would be required with wolse.


cuck chair

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cuck chair.wav

From cuck (“a cuckold or cuckquean: one who is married to an unfaithful partner”) + chair, alluding to the fact that the person being cucked sits in the chair while watching their partner have sexual intercourse with another. Attested as early as the 2010s but first popularised as a meme in 2022.

compound

"And I also make sure there is a chair in every hotel room corner." I stared at the dragon for a long moment. "Wait... those chairs are yours?" I asked, fully remembering the amount of corner chairs I'd seen at taverns and inns along our journey. "Of course," he laughed, flashing his giant teeth once more. "That's why they call it the cuck chair!" "I never knew they had a reason!" I looked around the dragon's shoulder at the others. "Did you guys know it was a cuck chair?"

2023, Blake R. Wolfe, The Quest for Cowmelot: An LGBTQ+ Arthurian Fantasy Satire, →ISBN, page unnumbered page:

(Internet slang, humorous) A chair, especially one in a hotel room, that faces the bed; a corner chair.


blanket chest

(furniture) A piece of furniture with or without drawers, consisting of a hinged lid, a deep well, designed for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.


A type of mid-rise building with a wooden frame, typically consisting of five stories of residential units atop one story of retail units or parking.


stilt house

A house raised on stilts or piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water.


twin XL

The twin XL has a twin-size width—helpful given dorm rooms' limited space—and its king-size length, presumably, is a bone thrown to the comfort of students whose bodies are, after all, adult-size. ¶ Twin XLs are so specific to colleges that some families begin the college-preparation process having never heard of the size.

2019 August 31, Alia Wong, “How Twin XL Beds Took Over College Campuses”, in The Atlantic:

(US) A mattress that is slightly longer (usually 38.5 × 79.5 in or 98 × 202 cm) than a twin; a bed designed for such a mattress.


meeana

After that, in the same style as the bridegroom came the preceding night to the bride's house, he now proceeds home on horseback, and she along with him in a meeana (a palankeen) with doors shut, attended by music, dancing-girls, and accompanied by all the relatives, &c. On reaching his house, the attendants, musicians, &c. are dismissed with betel.

1832, Jaffur Shurreef, translated by G. A. Herklotts, Qauoon-e-Islam, or, The Customs of the Moosulmans of India...:

Stewart has lately made two for the King of Tanjore's sons, which, it is said, will cost near 10,000 Rs. each. They are Mahanas (6) with venetians, etc., etc. Bedding and Pillows of velvet as the Lining.
(6) Mahanah, Meeana, Myana—a long palanquin in which the occupant lay at full length with a support for the head and shoulders.

1933 December, Evan Cotton, “A Famous Calcutta Firm (The Story of Steuart & Co.)”, in Bengal Past and Present, Vol. XLVI, Pt. II, No. 92, p. 70:

(India, inexact) Synonym of palanquin, an Indian litter of whatever form.


chowpaul

... the Chowpaul is the most ancient, and, as it were, the original from which all the other forms of palanquin may be traced; on this account it is used in all great ceremonies, marriages, processions, etc. The Chowpaul is simply a very light bed or sofa, over which a large bambou forms an arch. But as this is not a sufficient defence against the sun, it is always attended by a servant carrying a chata or parasol.

1811, François Balthazar Solvyns, Les Hindoûs, Vol. III, Section 8, No. 2:

With these beams and door and window frames send me... 10 chowpaul timbers the largest and the best you can get.

1915, Bengal Past & Present, volume 11, page 57:

(chiefly historical) A kind of open Indian litter whose support pole is curved in a wide arch over the bed.


takhtrawan

From Persian تخت روان (taxt-e ravân), partially via French tack-ravan, from Persian تخت (taxt, “throne, elevated seat or bed”) + روان (ravân, “walking, travelling, mobile”).

der

... a Tackravan, or a Field-Throne of admirable workmanship...

1671, François Bernier, translated by Henry Oldenburg, The History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogol..., volume II, page 24:

... gorgeous Takhtrewan, or litters carried between camels or mules with scarlet and brass trappings ...

1857, Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimate to El Medinah and Meccah, volume I, page 400:

An hour after the courier, the takhtrawan (which is a kind of litter borne by two mules) also arrived... her delicate state of health now rendered the exchange of her saddle for the litter most grateful, and even necessary.

1861, Justin Perkins, Missionary Life in Persia, pages 25-26:

His life was probably saved by Mr. Dwight... requesting the aid of a takhtirewán, the only native carriage known to the Persians. It resembles a sedan-chair, except in being borne by two mules or horses, and closed from the external air, and in requiring a lying posture.

1870, Rufus Anderson, chapter VI, in History of the Missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, volume I:

For men and women who suffer from being in the saddle for so many hours, there is a choice between the "kerjava" and the "takht-i-rawan"... although two mules carry a takht-i-rawan, those who employ this, the superior form of carriage, pay for four mules. The takht-i-rawan is used by great ladies of the Shah's court, by the aged and infirm, and by the ladies of the foreign embassies... One can rarely find a takht-i-rawan when such a carriage is wanted; they are usually built to order, and cost from six to ten pounds sterling.

1877, Robert Arthur Arnold, Through Persia by Caravan, page 125:

(Middle East and South Asia, chiefly historical) A covered litter carried by a pair of animals.

Whenever the King takes an excursion in his Paleky, on an elephant, or in a Tact-Ravan (or travelling throne, carried upon the shoulders of eight men, who are cleverly relieved from time to time when on the march by eight others), all the Omrahs who are not prevented by illness, disabled by age, or exempted by a peculiar office, are bound to accompany him on horseback...

1891, François Bernier, translated by Archibald Constable et al., Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668, page 214:

One of the open palanquins which the Mughal emperors, especially Aurangzeb, preferred, was Takht-i rawan. At one occasion in 1662, the Dutch had presented 'several articles of Chinese and Japanese workmanship; among which were a paleky and a Tack-ravan or travelling throne, of exquisite beauty, and much admired'.

2019 December, Nazer Aziz Anjum, “Officials' Transport in Mughal India”, in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, volume 80, page 431:

On Friday, 27th October, 1676 A.D. while the Emperor was returning from the Jama mosque and had alighted from the boat in order to mount the movable chair (takht-i-rawan), an ill-fated disciple of Guru Tegh Bahadur threw two bricks, one of which reached the chair. He was seized by the retinue and ordered to be made over to the Kotwal.

2021 December, Harpreet Kaur, "Guru Tegh Bahadur: Upholder of Democratic Principles", Studies in Sikhism and Comparative Religion, Vol. XLVI No. 2, p. 33

(India, historical) An ornate open litter used as a mobile throne, particularly by the Mughal emperors, usually borne by human porters.


carving fork

A fork with a long handle and two or three whetted flat tines, used in the process of serving meat, sausage, cheese or similar with care.

paistihaarukka

fork with a long handle and whetted flat tines, used to collect pieces of meat, sausage, cheese or similar with care


butterfly chair

en-noun

butterfly chair (plural butterfly chairs)

A type of chair featuring a metal frame, bearing resemblance to a butterfly's wings, and a large sling hung from the frame's highest points, creating a suspended seat.


fpoon

What began as a hobby became a serious research project when they realized such errors reveal a lot about the mind. For instance, when Reverend William A. Spooner said "foon and spork" instead of "spoon and fork," he revealed that we speak in units of phonemes. No English speaker would say "fpoon and sork" by accident, since "sp" is an indivisible phoneme.

It is interesting that native speakers of English, when they spoonerize, almost always stay within the bounds of English phonetics. Thus, for instance, "spoon and fork" would never be spoonerized as "fpoon and sork". This indicates that an autonomous process in charge of phonetics alone is at work in the mind during speech production.

1989, Michigan Quarterly Review, volume 28, numbers 2-4, University of Michigan, page 189:

“And who are you, my little friend? Not a spoon... Not a fork... But something in between. A "fpoon".” [chuckles] “What will you think of next, Germany?”

2013 October 30, Rebecca Drysdale, Colton Dunn, Keegan-Michael Key, Phil Augusta Jackson, Jay Martel, Jordan Peele, Ian Roberts, Alex Rubens, Charlie Sanders, “Sexy Vampires” (14:34 from the start), in Key & Peele, season 3, episode 7, Jordan Peele (actor):


Alaskan King

(US) A very large bed measuring 108 × 108 inches (274 × 274 cm), considerably larger than a king-sized bed.