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单词 destrayt
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destraytn.

Forms: Also destrayte, destraytte.
Etymology: < Old French destreit (-ait , -oit ), modern French détroit ‘a strait, a narrow place or passage, a defile, a confined place’ < late popular Latin districtum , < districtus tight, strict, severe, past participle of distringĕre to distrain v.: compare district n.
Obsolete.
A narrow pass or defile.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through hills or difficult ground
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1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxv. 244 The day after passed they by a moche sharp & aspre way, & after descended by a destrayt in to a playne.
c1500 Melusine (1895) lvii. 336 On the morne he passed the destraytte & mounted the mountaynes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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