单词 | goodwood |
释义 | Goodwoodn. Horse Racing. I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating the annual race meeting held at Goodwood racecourse, as Goodwood races, Goodwood week, etc. ΚΠ 1801 Morning Post & Gazetteer 4 May 3/4 The new Goodwood Races..were well attended on Monday and Tuesday, last week. Not less than 15,000 people were present. 1839 W. H. Mason Goodwood 182 (heading) Goodwood races. Were established in 1802. 1848 Lady's Newspaper 29 July 84/1 With the exception of Ascot, we consider the Goodwood Race meeting the most pleasurable of the year. 1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now I. xxxv. 219 Mr. Melmotte had bought Pickering Park... There were rumours that it was to be made ready for the Goodwood week. 1922 E. Wallace Flying Fifty-five x. 59 Where are you going to stay during the Goodwood week? 1951 B. W. R. Curling Brit. Racecourses 84 The present Duke of Richmond is more actively interested in motor-racing than in horse-racing, but Goodwood week does not suffer on that account. 2010 Australian (Nexis) 2 Aug. 39 He has maintained his strike rate after the three days of the Goodwood meeting, lifting both feature events for two-year-olds. 2. Goodwood Cup n. a long-distance flat race contested as part of the annual Goodwood meeting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > specific races St. Leger1778 the Oaks1779 Goodwood Cup1829 Leger1832 Cesarewitch1839 Cambridgeshire handicap1840 Grand Prix de Paris1862 Grand National1863 classic1899 national1909 1829 Morning Post 7 Aug. State of the betting. Tattersall's, Aug. 6. Goodwood Cup. 5 to 4 agst Mameluke [etc.]. 1956 Radio Times 27 July 38/2 The Goodwood Cup. For three-year-olds and upwards over two miles and five furlongs. 2003 Racing Post (Nexis) 31 July 6 The remarkable Persian Punch returns for another crack at the Goodwood Cup. II. Simple uses. 3. An annual race meeting held at Goodwood racecourse, typically in the last week in July. Frequently in glorious Goodwood. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > race-meeting > specific Ascot1814 Goodwood1842 Magic Million1986 1842 Era 11 Dec. 9/1 There were no intervening sports of any note until we got to glorious Goodwood. 1896 J. Kent Rec. & Reminisc. Goodwood v. 41 He [sc. the Duke of Richmond] had laid the foundation of what has become the most..enjoyable race meeting in the kingdom, and is justly styled ‘Glorious Goodwood’. 1997 Sporting Life (Nexis) 24 July 2 The stable star will spearhead Godolphin's assault on Glorious Goodwood. 2011 Daily Tel. 20 July 26/5 Nothing is more English than Goodwood,..which for many is the highlight of the social season. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801 |
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