单词 | aeronautica |
释义 | aeronautican. 1. In titles of works: aerial navigation; = aeronautics n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > science or art of air travel > facts or matters of aeronautica1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Aeronautica, the pretended art of sailing in a vessel thro' the air or atmosphere. ?1802 (title) Aeronautica: or, voyages in the air; containing the principles of aerostation and of flying machines..also shewing the use to which air balloons may be applied. 1838 T. M. Mason (title) Aeronautica; or, sketches illustrative of the theory and practice of aerostation. 1883 Catal. Pat. Off. Libr. II. 4 (title) Aëronautica illustrata. A complete cabinet of aërial ascents and descents from the earliest period. 1910 (title of J. Pearson & Co. catal.) Aeronautica, or, The history of aviation and aerostation: told in contemporary autograph letters, books,..press notices, etc., dating from the year 1557 to 1880. 1949 (title of periodical) Aeronautica. 2. As mass noun or with plural agreement. Collectable objects associated with flying or the history of aviation. ΚΠ 1966 W. T. O'Dea (title) Aeronautica: objects d'art, prints, air mail. 1979 (title of sale cataloge) Nautica, aeronautica, ballooning, automobilia, automobile spares and accessories and car mascots. (Sotheby's, London.) 1984 Sunday Herald (Chicago) 7 Oct. iv. 3/5 The autographs read like a ‘who's who in aeronautica’ and include letters from Amelia Earhart, the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. 1995 Guardian 25 Nov. 10 (caption) A Jet Provost and a Chipmunk will go under the hammer today at Sotheby's annual auction of historic aircraft and aeronautica. 2001 Collect It! Jan. 56/2 We also discovered a Militaria webring listing hundreds of sites, not only those concerned with aeronautica. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1753 |
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