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▪ I. quai
(keɪ, ‖ ke)
[Fr.: see quay n.]
1. A public way constructed on the quay or embankment of a stretch of navigable water, usu. having buildings along the land side; spec. such a street on either bank of the Seine in Paris.
1870[see kiosk 2]. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country ii. 89 One whose father's house upon the Quai Neighboured the very house where that Voltaire Died mad and raving. 1927C. Connolly Let. 11 Feb. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 251 The solidarity of this town [sc. Bordeaux] with its respectable houses and cobbled quais. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxxi. 110 And at first disappointed with shoddy The bare ram-shackle quais. 1954I. Murdoch Under Net xiv. 191 The cloudless light drew a wash of colour along the grey façades of the quais. 1963V. Gielgud Goggle-Box Affair xi. 103 The quais and the cafés of the Left Bank in spring. 1977Time 28 Nov. 31/3 The canal that once passed along the quai has been replaced by a Métro station.
2. ellipt. for Quai d'Orsay.
1960N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred iv. 47 They know absolutely everything you do..what impression Alfred makes at the Quai..and so on. 1973H. Trevelyan Diplomatic Channels i. 20 During General de Gaulle's later years, French diplomats who received their instructions from the Quai were handicapped, since the Quai often did not know what policy the General was pursuing through his inner circle.
▪ II. quai
variant of quay. |