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‖ Prater2|ˈprɑːtə(r)|
[Ger., ad. It. prato meadow.]
The name of a large wooded park in Vienna.
1803C. Wilmot Let. 2 Aug. in Irish Peer (1920) 207 The Prater..is esteem'd the most magnificent public walk and drive in Europe. 1819M. Wilmot More Lett. (1935) 20 The turn out in the Prater of a Sunday Eveg is Magnificent. 1870G. H. Lewes Jrnl. 10 Apr. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) V. 89 Lytton then proposed that we should drive in the Prater. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 52/1 The Prater, a vast expanse (2000 acres) of wood and park on the east side of the city, between the Danube and the Danube Canal, is greatly frequented by all classes. 1938W. J. Turner Mozart xvi. 312 One fine autumn day when they were sitting in the beautiful Prater, Mozart spoke of his approaching death. 1945C. Isherwood Prater Violet 33 It is a warm spring evening in the Vienna Prater. 1974A. Goddard Vienna Pursuit ii. 40, I..made a stately circuit on the Big Wheel in the Prater. |