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corridor|ˈkɒrɪdɔː(r)|
Also 7 corredor, curridore, 7–9 corridore.
[c gray][a. F. corridor (16th c., also courridour), ad. It. corridore (also corridoio) a long passage in a building or between two buildings, f. correre to run. Cf. Sp. corredor in same sense. Webster 1828 pronounced (kɒrɪˈdɔə(r)[/c]); so Byron; Smart 1836–49 |ˌkɒrɪˈdɔː(r)|.
The It. corridoio (from -orio, L. -ōrium) is the original type, the primary meaning being ‘running-place’. In the form in -ore it is confused with corritore, corridore a runner.]
†1. A passage, covered walk, or avenue between two places. Obs. in Eng. use.
1620E. Blount Horæ Subs. 366 From thence a Curridore, or priuate way, to his Castle of Saint Angelo. 1673E. Brown Trav. Germany (1677) 102 There is also a House of Pleasure in the Mote, into which there is no other passage but through a high Corridore. 1739Gray Lett. 9 Dec. (Bologna), From one of the principal gates to a church of the Virgin, runs a corridore of the same sort. 1814Sir R. Wilson Diary II. 300 On descending I passed by the church of S. Maria del Monte and its magnificent corridor or piazza, on the declivity of a hill.
†2. Fortif. The continuous path that surrounds the fortifications of a place, on the outside of the moat and protected by the glacis; the covered way. Obs.
1591Garrard Art of Warre 326 To mount upon the Corridor of y⊇ Counterscarpe. 1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend Map, No. 54 The Gallery or Corredor..to the Counter-scarfe. 1706Phillips, Corridor..In Fortification, the Covert-way above the Counterscarp, lying round about the Compass of the Place, between the Moat and the Pallisadoes.
[¶ b. Applied to the curtain.
A Dictionary error handed down from Cotgr.
[1611Cotgr., Corridor, a curtaine, in fortification.] 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1658Phillips, Corridor, a Term in fortification, otherwise called Cortina, or Curtain. [So 1678.] ]
3. An outside gallery or passage round the quadrangle or court of a building, connecting one part with another.
1644Evelyn Diary 1 Apr. (Palace of Luxemburge), The court below is formed into a square by a corridor, having over the chiefe entrance a stately cupola, covered with stone. 1755Johnson, Corridor, a gallery or long isle round about a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 23 Apr., If..there had been a corridore with arcades all round, as in Covent Garden. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lvii, Richly caparison'd, a ready row Of armed horse..Circled the wide-extending court below; Above, strange groups adorn'd the corridore. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. x, Those glazed corridors are pleasant to walk in, in bad weather.
4. a. A main passage in a large building, upon which in its course many apartments open. Also fig. Cf. coulisse 4.
1814Byron Corsair iii. xix, Glimmering through the dusky corridore, Another [lamp] chequers o'er the shadow'd floor. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 16 They passed along a corridor lit from above, and lined with old family pictures. 1881Goldw. Smith Lect. & Ess. 198 Finding themselves adrift in the corridors of Windsor. 1962Listener 15 Feb. 280/1 The glamorous and Machiavellian figures, patrolling the corridors of power, to which we have been accustomed in many recent novels and plays. 1964C. P. Snow (title) Corridors of power. 1970Physics Bull. Mar. 110/1 It's no good physicists going into the corridors of power in Whitehall..unless they are..effective people.
fig.1872Liddon Elem. Relig. vi. 205 We do well to traverse all the corridors of history.
b. A similar passage in a railway carriage, upon which all the compartments open.
1892, etc. [see senses 5 below]. 1899Railway Engineer Jan. 26 The ceiling of the corridor, as will be seen from the drawing, is a complete arch made up in a similar way to that of the compartments. 1951Oxf. Jun. Encycl. IV. 343/2 The traditional plan of a side corridor connecting separate compartments has given place, on many main-line British trains, to open coaches with a central gangway.
c. A strip of the territory of a state running through another territory and so contrived as to give access to a certain part, e.g. the sea.
1919Economist 5 July 6/2 The German connections across the Polish ‘corridor’ to the sea. 1920H. Spender Prime Minister 310 When matters seemed at a deadlock—on the Saar Valley, the Polish Corridor, or even the perplexing question of Fiume. 1921R. W. Seton-Watson in H. W. V. Temperley Hist. Peace Confer. Paris IV. 273 The Czecho-Slovaks advanced a claim for territorial contiguity with the Yugo-slavs, to be attained by the creation of a corridor running from the Danube to the Drave. 1921Times 4 Jan. 12/1 The Danzig corridor is bound to be the subject of dispute for long to come. 1950Theimer & Campbell Encycl. World Politics 121/2 The Corridor became the immediate cause of World War II.
d. = air corridor (air n.1 III. 8).
1920Flight XII. 346/1 The River Indus is to be the northern boundary of civil flying, save for..two ‘corridors’. One of these is 20 miles wide from Sukkur (exclusive) to Quetta. 1921[see aerial corridor s.v. aerial a. 5]. 1922[see air n.1 III. 8]. 1948H. Nicolson Diary 16 July (1968) III. 146 The Russians.. will be carrying out the training of their fighter aeroplanes across air corridors to Berlin.
5. Comb. corridor carriage, coach, a carriage of a corridor train; corridor train, a railway train through the length of which a corridor (sense 4 b above) or passage extends.
1892Daily News 8 Mar. 5/3 The Corridor Train is so named from a narrow passage which runs from end to end. 1893Ibid. 22 June 2/3 First and third class ‘corridor’ carriages... The ‘corridor’ carriages will have an enclosed passage running along the side. 1896Ibid. 5 Aug. 5/1 The Board asks for information as to corridor trains, corridor cars, and carriages with open compartments. 1903A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car v. 59 The cars will be of the corridor type, seven to a full train. 1907Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 10/1 The Great Western Railway Magazine for September claims for that company the credit of producing the first complete corridor-train, combining the privacy of separate compartments with the advantages of through communication from end to end and access to toilet rooms. It was ‘built’ in April 1892. 1911Kipling in Harper's Mag. Dec. 5/2 Dr. Gilbert stood by the door of the one composite corridor-coach. 1919J. Buchan Mr. Standfast viii. 151 It was not a corridor carriage, but one of the old-fashioned kind. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XI. 498/2 Corridor coaches had at first no connecting gangways... The Great Western and Great Eastern Railways both produced corridor trains with proper covered gangway connexions..in 1891. |