单词 | aerogramme |
释义 | aerogrammen. = aerogram n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letters, etc., by method of dispatch or conveyance post-letter1648 ship-letterc1675 by-letter1685 penny-post letter1686 way letter1710 by-night1766 cross-letter1789 twopenny1818 box letter1827 non-paid1829 balloon-letter1870 pigeongram1875 railway letter1891 pneumatogram1894 airmail1918 aerogram1919 airgram1919 air letter1920 pneumatique1924 pneu1926 snail mail1929 aerogramme1934 airgraph1941 1934 Times 16 Mar. 4/7 The values of genuinely flown covers or aerogrammes vary..according to rarity and aero-philatelical interest. 1964 H. Robinson Carrying Brit. Mails Overseas xxiv. 302 The folded air-letter form..has..been generally adopted..throughout the world. The Congress of the Universal Postal Union held at Brussels in 1952 provided for its general use. The front of the folded form was to bear the word Aerogramme and a similar indication such as ‘Air Letter’ in the language of the country. 1979 T. Benn Arguments for Socialism 14 My brother Michael..and I corresponded about socialism and religion by airletter and aerogramme. 1982 N. Gordimer in Lit. Rev. Oct. 44/3 There his letter was, among circulars from film clubs, bills, and aerogrammes with ‘And when are you coming over’ scribbled on the back. 1998 A. Chaudhuri Freedom Song (1999) 31 A hand-woven cotton sling bag..crammed with neat, though uneven, stairways of letters, a small blue aerogramme climbing up to a broad brown-paper envelope. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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