英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 fleshusse, from 古期英語 flǣsċhūs (“slaughterhouse, meat shop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“shambles”), equivalent to flesh +‎ house.

発音

• IPA: /flɛʃ.haʊs/

名詞

fleshhouse (plural fleshhouses)

1. (rare) A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop.

   Synonyms: shambles, slaughterhouse

   • 1915, Lauron William De Laurence, The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism, Now..., page 80:

     To seek for things that are pure and good, instead of criticis and philosophies, that rise up out of thy contaminated fleshhouse.

   • 2019, Alexander Grant, Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship & Community, page 165:

     He probably did most of his selling in the market place; in the fifteenth century there was a special fleshhouse set aside for the fleshers to sell their wares.

   • 2019, Sara Wolf, Find Me Their Bones:

     The fleshhouses exist in defiance of all Vetris's suffocating religion and decorum, and maybe that's why I feel a little freer here, even if the hawkers sitting outside shout me down as I pass or the customers give me a leery eye every few steps.