unroofedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From un- +‎ roofed.

形容詞

unroofed (not comparable)

1. Not roofed, not having a roof.
   • 1955, Thomas Mann, translated by Denver Lindley, Confessions of Felix Krull, Signet, published 1963, Book Three, Chapter VII, p. 254:

     Stone pillars had been raised, a number of them; they stood unroofed, forming a hall of pillars with only the heavens as ceiling, and on the plain beyond the sun was just rising, flaming red, over the edge of the world.

   • 1960 May, “New Signalbox at Manchester Victoria”, in Railway Magazine, page 310:

     A separate building on the west side will house a standby powerhouse and a workshop, and there will be an unroofed compound for compressed air cylinders and water tanks.

   • 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:

     The final stages will be the demolition next year of the remaining part of the steam Jubilee Shed and the removal of the great, unroofed coaling plant nearby (said to be the oldest in the country); the turntable is also to disappear.

   • 2010, Lola Shoneyin, chapter 9, in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Harper Collins:

     Every eye watched Baba Segi as he barged through the door of the unroofed pit latrine.

語源 2

動詞

unroofed

1. simple past and past participle of unroof