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▪ I. promenade, n.|prɒmɪˈnɑːd, -ˈeɪd, ˈprɒm-|
Forms: 6 purmenade, (purmenado), 7 pourmenade, 7– promenade.
[a. F. promenade (1557 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. promener to lead forth, take for a walk, refl., se promener to take a walk, altered from OF. and 16th c. F. (still in Cotgr., 1611) pourmenade a walk, pourmener ‘to walke (trans.), to stirre vp and downe’:—late L. prōmināre (Appul.) to drive onward (a beast), f. prō forward, forth + mināre to threaten, in rustic and late L. mināre to drive (beasts), i.e. with cries, It. menare, F. mener to conduct, lead. See also -ade, -ado.
1818Todd, Promenade..is a common phrase of recent times.]
1. A walk taken (usually at a leisurely pace) for exercise or amusement, or (esp.) to and fro for display, or in a formal manner as part of a social ceremony. Also applied to exercise taken in this way in a carriage, on horseback, or in a boat.
1567Fenton Trag. Disc. 19 The often palewalkes & purmenades he made by the gate of hys Pallais. Ibid. 127 He forgat not euery day..to make his purmenado on horsebacke in the street. 1675H. Woolley Gentlewoman's Comp. 34 Your Promenades or walks. a1734North Exam. iii. viii. §31 (1740) 606 He passed, with the Sword before him, through the Crowd... This Promenade was done more than once. 1785G. A. Bellamy Apology V. 43 She only knew how to make trimmings, to sing ‘Haut de Villes’, and take the promenade. 1827Scott Jrnl. 7 Mar., To see the exhibition lit up for a promenade. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 197 He had little taste for the Sunday promenades in a town.
2. a. A place for walking or promenading; a walk; esp. a paved public walk for social promenades (now most freq. a paved walk raised alongside the beach at a seaside resort).
1648W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. xix. §6. 364 This little intermixture of a Garden-plat or patern..may be no unpleasant walk or promenade for the unconfined portion of some solitary Prisoner. 1656Blount Glossogr., Promenade, see Pourmenade. Ibid., Pourmenade (Fr.), a Walk. 1792A. Young Trav. France 20 The promenade is finely situated; built on the highest part of the rampart. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 377 A street..running far along the shore of the Mediterranean, from which it is separated by a promenade, finely planted, and adorned with statues, fountains, &c. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxviii, The streets were not altogether a pleasant promenade for well-born women. 1882Ashton Soc. Life Reign Q. Anne xxxiv. II. 149 A very large barge with a saloon, and promenade on the top. 1892B. Potter Jrnl. Mar. (1966) 234, I was disappointed with the Hoe. It is exactly like the grounds of the Naval Exhibition, broad asphalt promenades, cigar kiosks, and even the lighthouse all complete. 1899P. E. Amy Beautiful Jersey 69/2 Promenades. The chief of these is the Esplanade, a marine promenade, practically a continuation of Albert Quay. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock i. i. 5 The ghost train diving between the grinning skeleton [sic] under the Aquarium promenade, the sticks of Brighton rock, the paper sailors' caps. 1939Blackpool Official Guide, Blackpool's promenades cover the whole seaboard of seven miles in length. Ibid., There is no other seafront which combines such a variety of scenery as Blackpool's famous promenade. 1958J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 117 Prepare for an evening of dancing and cards And forget the sea-breeze on the dry promenades. 1977Lancashire Life Dec. 57/1 Along the promenade at that point there were cannons at intervals.
b. spec. A gallery at a music-hall, frequented by demi-mondaines and their followers.
The two most notorious promenades were at the Empire and the Alhambra music-halls in Leicester Square.
1863Observer 18 Jan. 6/2 The Alhambra, of all the music halls, is the one least entitled to use the name... The balcony is converted into a promenade for loose women and the simpletons who run after them. 1899Beerbohm Around Theatres (1953) 32 We bought two seats... We passed, on our way to them, into the far-famed Promenade. 1906A. Bennett Whom God hath Joined i. 20, I saw the great Charlie the other night..in the promenade at the Empire. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. ii. 870 Michael reached the Orient Palace of Varieties, and..joined the throng of the Promenade. Ibid. 872 On the Promenade where it was quite certain that every woman had a history to account for her presence there, how utterly living had quenched life. 1915Kipling in Nash's Mag. Oct. 133/1 He was as communicative as—as a lady in the Promenade. 1918A. Bennett Pretty Lady i. 2 Behind the audience came the restless Promenade, where was the reality which the stage reflected. 1964C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. 236 A flash tart who frequented the promenades of the Empire or the Alhambra. 1979R. Blythe View in Winter iv. 182 The wonderful Empire in Leicester Square..the promenade there..was frequented by the first-class ladies of the town.
c. A ball or dance at a school or college. U.S.
1887Lippincott's Mag. Aug. 298 The most important society event of the year is the Junior Promenade. 1905N.Y. Herald 22 Jan. 10 The fair guests invited to the Junior Promenade, the great event of the college year. 1933Fortune Aug. 90/3 True jazz..is even losing its great popularity at college promenades. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 35/2 US promenade—BE school dance, college dance.
d. Dancing. (See quots.) Also promenade position.
1953K. Ambrose Beginners, Please! vi. 43 When a pivot is made on one leg (as in Figs. 5–6–7..) the movement is termed a promenade. 1956J. C. Milligan 101 Scottish Country Dances 28 Promenade for three couples is a formation, not a method of progression. 1957G. B. L. Wilson Penguin Dict. Ballet 222 Promenade, (1) a slow turn on one foot while the body is held in a set position, such as an arabesque; (2) a slow turn in a pas de deux when the danseuse, on point, is turned round by her partner. 1967Chujoy & Manchester Dance Encycl. 747/1 Promenade position, in ballroom dance, a couple in closed position moving sideways to the left, with the side of the foot leading. 1968J. C. Milligan Introd. Scottish Country Dancing 51 Promenade can be done by two, three or four couples. It is done in both reel and strathspey time and takes eight travelling steps.
3. colloq.
a. Short for promenade deck: see sense 4 a.
1845Knickerbocker XXV. 61 On the upper deck the engineers and sailors, ladies, emigrants and gentlemen, sat side by side upon the single seat which ran all round the promenade. 1873W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance i. 1 On the forward promenade of the Saguenay boat..Miss Kitty Ellison sat. 1974‘G. Black’ Golden Cockatrice iv. 74, I..went up one deck..going out on to the open promenade which was empty.
b. Short for promenade concert: see sense 4 b.
1901Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 2/1 The Promenades are with us again. 1902Ibid. 11 Sept. 4/1 The Promenades go on from triumph to triumph.., if the audiences might sometimes be larger, they could not possibly be more appreciative.
4. a. attrib., as promenade bonnet, promenade deck, promenade platform, promenade terrace; b. promenade band, a band that performs at a promenade concert; promenade concert, a concert at which the audience walk about instead of being seated or at which a proportion of the audience stands.
1823Repos. Arts, etc. Ser. iii. I. 184 Fashionable for promenade bonnets. 1829Amer. Traveller (Boston) 14 Apr. 2 The engraving above, exhibits what may emphatically be termed a Land Barge..with a cabin, berths, &c. below; a promenade deck, awning, seats, &c. above. 1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. 250/1 The timber piles which carry the passengers promenade platforms. a1860Alb. Smith Long. Med. Stud. (1861) 88 Mr. Jones taking refreshment with a lamplighter and two cabmen at a promenade coffee-stand near Charing Cross. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 194 The ladies drew their chairs together on the promenade deck. 1931M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune vi. 114 He strode out with the best of them on the promenade deck. 1973‘D. Mariner’ Beaufort Dossier x. 177 The promenade deck was really a broad passage... Its roof was the..boat-deck overhead.
b.1839Inventors Advocate 5 Oct. 127/1 The Musard Promenade Band..will resume its performances at the Lyceum. 1839Dickens Let. 9 Feb. (1965) I. 640 Kate at the Promenade Concert. 1839Mus. World Apr. 253 The ‘gentleman pensioner’ of Drury with his lions and his promenade concerts. 1865Pall Mall G. 28 Aug. 11/1 When promenade concerts were first introduced into England they really deserved their name. They were then given at a place called the ‘Adelaide Gallery’... The promenade concert..was an importation from France; and Musard, Laurent, and Jullien were its importers. 1893World 11 Oct. 23/2 Long before the run of a successful Savoy opera is over Sir Arthur's melodies are dinned into our ears by every promenade band and street piano. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Mar. 4/1 It should combine the features of a convention hall with the facilities for holding promenade concerts at which at least 3,000 persons can be accommodated. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) IX. 357/1 On 30 June 1944 the Promenade Concerts were closed down..on account of flying bombs, but they were replaced on 1 July by broadcasts from Bedford. It was there that Wood conducted his last performance on 28 July. 1962Listener 2 Aug. 189/3 The programme engineer at the Promenade Concerts noticeably reduced the volume of cheers at the conclusion of Mahler's Third Symphony.
▪ II. promeˈnade, v.
(see prec.)
Also 6 Sc. prominede (in vbl. n. promineding).
[f. prec. n.]
1. a. intr. To make a promenade; to walk about (or take exercise on horseback, or in a carriage, etc.), esp. for amusement or display; to parade.
1588[see promenading below]. 1801T. S. Surr Splendid Misery I. 128 As they were thus promenading. 1801C. Smith Lett. Solit. Wand. II. 280 The news⁓papers suffer nobody to walk—they must promenade (which, so used, is no word in any language). 1842Tennyson Amphion v, The poplars, in long order due, With cypress promenaded, The shock-head willows two and two By rivers gallopaded. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. (1883) I. 374 Promenading gently on horseback. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iii. 57 Restlessly promenading up and down within sight of the windows. 1887Washburne Recoll. Minister I. i. 3 The grandes dames..promenaded in their gilded phaetons on the magnificent Avenue of the Champs Elysées.
b. With it, or with cognate (or advb.) acc.
1819Metropolis II. 93 After promenading a few turns,..I..sat down. Ibid. 94 A very high person was..promenading it in soft whispers with his aged Venus.
2. trans. To make a promenade through, to walk about (a place) in a leisurely or stately way.
1818T. Brown Brighton II. i. 22 Their more fortunate comrades promenade Hyde Park, or the Mall. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, The dancers promenaded the room. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, I beheld two compatriots in waterproof promenading the place. 1977Lancashire Life Aug. 33/2 Promenade Blackburn's bustling modern centre today, and you might find anxiety over a new town rival puzzling.
3. In causal sense (= F. promener): To lead (a person, etc.) about a place, esp. in the way of display. Also fig. (Cf. parade v. 4.)
1850Merivale Rom. Emp. II. xxii. 512 Mystic rites, ostensibly connected with..familiar deities, were promenaded from land to land. 1873Ruskin Fors Clav. xxx. 10 The Easter ox that they had promenaded at Berne. 1886Burton Arab. Nights I. 286 The Prefect..gave him an hundred lashes with a whip and, mounting him on a camel, promenaded him round about the city. 1890in Pall Mall G. 9 Aug. 1/3, I do not wish to be interviewed... I do not want to be promenaded in the papers.
Hence promeˈnading vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.
1588in Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan (1885) I. iv. 126 That all myddingis..be tane off the haill gaitts and passagis..and all other promineding places of the samyne... That.. the places of promineding be clenyit of all muck. 1815J. Scott Vis. Paris ix. (ed. 2) 100 Our countrymen..saw the promenading ladies. 1839Chambers Tour Holland, etc. 69/1 To afford space for promenading, there is a bridge of boats across the Lahn, leading to some beautiful woody banks opposite. 1865Reader 26 Aug. 244/2 A promenading audience is not blasé to Rossini or Mozart. |