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单词 nameboard
释义

nameboard

English

Etymology

name + board

Noun

nameboard (plural nameboards)

  1. A signboard bearing a name.
    • 1961 November, H. G. Ellison and P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
      On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) insidethis was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paristhen grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      Finally the couplings whimpered and the train limped off at a slow haul to another country station whose flaky nameboard read 'Adlestrop'.

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