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▪ I. detour, ‖ détour, n.
(dɪˈtʊə(r), now freq. ˈdiːtʊə(r); ‖ detur)
[a. mod.F. détour turning off, change of direction, in OF. destor, -tour, orig. *destorn; f. destorner now détourner turn away, f. des-, L. dis- + tourner to turn.]
A turning or deviation from the direct road; a roundabout or circuitous way, course, or proceeding. In 18th c. mostly fig.
1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 63 After many Detours, Mr. Bayle is at length brought to own [etc.]. 1780H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 1 Nov., We are above détours. 1794R. H. Lee in Washington's Writ. (1891) XII. 417 note, Upon our guard against all the arts and détours of the subtlest policy. 1807Sir R. C. Hoare Tour in Ireland 237, I was amply recompensed for this detour. 1809Scott Fam. Lett. 14 June (1894) I. 137, I ought in conscience to have made ten thousand pretty détours about all this. 1825Ibid. 22 Jan. II. 230 Perhaps they may make a détour in their journey to see you. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1871) 242 Rhyming [words]..sometimes..have driven the most straightforward of poets into an awkward détour. 1877Black Green Past. xliv. (1878) 357 To avoid these ruts we made long detours. 1922Joyce Ulysses 237 Better turn down here. Make a detour. 1923E. O'Neill Hairy Ape 50 They make wide detours to avoid the spot where he stands in the middle of the pavement. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 26 It's no use travelling by the compass if one has to make wide detours.
▪ II. detour, v.
[f. detour n.]
a. intr., to make a detour; to turn aside from the direct way; to go round about.
1836Tait's Mag. III. 481 This has been a busy week; rambling and climbing, touring and detouring. 1837New Monthly Mag. LI. 192 We..detoured again to the right. 1937D. Aldis Time at her Heels x. 225 Mary detoured to pick up her bag from the table. 1955E. Bowen World of Love ii. 41 A stranger, who detoured to drop them at the Montefort gates.
b. trans. To send by a detour. U.S.
1905N.Y. Even. Post 18 Sept., The Missouri Pacific is detouring its St. Louis—Kansas City trains over the Burlington Railway via Chillicothe. 1967Boston Globe 18 May 12/2 (caption) Workman carries signs detouring motorists off Cambridge st. and Broadway.
Add:c. To make a detour round; to bypass.
1941C. Graves Life Line 75 Sylvia B. picked up all the survivors instead of leaving them for the motor-launches to rescue. The other vessels astern just detoured her. 1946J. Hersey Hiroshima ii. 47 A station on a railroad line that detoured the city in a wide semi-circle. 1960K. Amis Take Girl like You v. 75 There was a long queue at the High Street traffic lights, mainly composed of westbound lorries detouring a more severe bottle-neck nearer London. 1986Aviation Week 8 Dec. 93/1 The POM states, in part, that when a flight encounters thunderstorm conditions, ‘detour the area’ if possible. |