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‖ sierra|sɪˈɛrə|
Also 7 ser(r)a.
[Sp. sierra:—L. serra saw.]
1. a. In Spain and parts of Latin America: A range of hills or mountains, rising in peaks which suggest the teeth of a saw.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 873 Peru is diuided into three parts, which they call Llanos, Sierras, and Andes. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 445 Spaine generally, is a masse of mountaines,..the Rockie Seraes or Alpes so innumerable. 1691Evelyn Corr. (1879) III. 469 There are vast ones [caves] under those Alps & Sierras from whence our rivers derive their plentifull streames. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 68 The Andes and Scirras [sic] are two Ridges of Mountains that run from North to South. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xxxii, Doth Tayo interpose his mighty tide? Or dark Sierras rise in craggy pride? 1843Prescott Mexico iii. v, Although the bleak winds of the sierra gave an austerity to the climate. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 673/1 The sierra of Peru may be..divided into four sections.
attrib.1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 422 Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis,..Sierra Jay.
b. In general use: A mountain-range of this description.
1807R. Southey Lett. from England II. xxxiv. 95 A range of mountains standing in the three provinces of Worcester, Gloucester, and Hereford... This sierra is justly admired for the beauty of its form. 1850W. Irving Mahomet xxxii. (1853) 141 Their rocky sierras on the east separated Azerbîjân from..the shores of the Caspian. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 96 The main range of Djebel Shomer, a long purple sierra of most picturesque outline.
2. Astr. = chromosphere.
1851G. B. Airy in Mem. R. Astron. Soc. XXI. 7, I saw that the sierra, or rugged line of projections,..had arisen. 1871Proctor Light Sci. 97 The objectionable word chromosphere (for chromatosphere) should be replaced by sierra. 1883― in 19th Cent. Nov. 876 In the sierra or chromatosphere the presence and nature of many other vapours are noted.
3. = cero.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1905D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xvi. 266 Almost exactly like it [sc. the Spanish mackerel] in appearance is the pintado, or sierra. 1965A. J. McClane Stand. Fishing Encycl. 793/2 Sierra are found along the Pacific coast of America from San Diego to Peru.
Hence siˈerran a.
1873B. Harte Fiddletown, etc. 92 It was in a Sierran solitude, where I had encamped. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 673/1 Sierran flora.
▸ Sierra Club n. orig. and chiefly U.S. a non-profit-making environmentalist organization, formed in the U.S. in the early 1890s (originally to promote the exploration of the mountainous regions of the Pacific coast); (also, occas.) an organization modelled on this; also in extended use.
1891Overland Monthly July 19/1 Why not have a *Sierra Club, to spend vacations in the mountains, and study them? 1926World's Work Sept. In the summer of 1902..he went with the Sierra Club far up in King's River Cañon. 1959Ski Mar. 47/1 The word ‘mogul’..it might be worthwhile to investigate it... The Sierra Club Ski Mountaineers have been using the word for the past twenty-five years or so as ‘mugel’. 1991Newsweek 18 Feb. 63/3 That leaves everything up to the iconography—a Freudian version of ‘Total Recall’ in Dali's case, and a kind of Sierra Club Valhalla in Friedrich's. 2000D. D'Souza Virtue of Prosperity ii. 47 Right-wingers are moving toward a proenvironmental stance. This does not mean that conservatives are signing up in droves to go tree hugging with the Sierra Club. |