“pendopo”的英英意思

单词 pendopo
释义 pendopo|pɛnˈdəʊpəʊ|
Also mendopo, pendapa.
[ad. Javanese penḍâpâ.]
In Java: a large, covered porch or veranda in front of a house.
1927H. S. Banner Romantic Java iv. 56 Its [sc. the residence's] most arresting feature is the Mendopo, a huge, open-sided verandah in the front.1958H. Forster Flowering Lotus iii. 41 We entered the pendopo, skirted the piled desks and reached the ‘common room’.1961H. Geertz Javanese Family i. 7 The greater portion of this building is the pendapa, a kind of oversized summer⁓house about a hundred feet square and always cool, dark, and dignified looking.1971Nat. Geographic Jan. 27/1 Within its gates are large, low, and lovely buildings, perfectly adapted to the hot and humid climate. The best of these are the pendopos, huge open-sided structures covered by four-sided roofs, supported above gleaming marble floors by columns of carved teak.

 

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