porter's lodgeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• porter-lodge, porters' lodge

名詞

porter's lodge (plural porters' lodges)

1. A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.
   • 1819 August 30, Times, page 2:

     The keys... were on Saturday stolen from the porter's lodge.

2. (UK, Canada) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 39:

     [H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.

同意語

• (all): plodge, lodge
• (building): see guardhouse
• (room): see mailroom

派生語

• plodge

参照

• “porter, n.¹.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.