单词 | corso |
释义 | Corson. A street in Italy in which races or festivals were held; a procession of carriages; a promenade; esp. a specific street in Rome. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > where processions or festivals held Corsoa1684 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > specific street Watling Street1569 pall-mall1656 high1853 Corso1876 Great White Way1902 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 484 We passd the Campo Martio..wherein the Noblesse exercise their horses, and the Ladys make the Corso. 1740 T. Gray Let. 10 July in Corr. (1971) I. 166 The Pretender..I have had frequent opportunities of seeing at church, at the corso, and other places. 1849 E. Ruskin Let. 28 Oct. (1965) i. 54 The prancing of the horses trotting and galloping after us on the Corso [in Milan]. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 122/2 The carnival sports seem at that time [sc. 1545] to have consisted..of..the races in the Corso (which, formerly called the Via Lata, took its present name from them). 1926 Spectator 17 July 89/1 Every evening Prince Michael Street [in Belgrade] is closed to traffic and becomes the ‘Corso’ up and down which young men..escort girls. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 911/1 A town [in Yugoslavia] that has any pretensions to be a town has to have a Corso, a street designed for promenading in the cool of the evening. 1961 Times 30 Nov. 13/6 Rather like those Sunday strolls along an Italian corso. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1684 |
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