单词 | antre |
释义 | antren. Now rare. A cave, a cavern; (also) a lair, a den. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave covec950 denOE cavec1220 rochea1300 spelunk13.. cavernc1374 cabin1377 speke1377 antruma1398 minea1398 thurse-house?c1450 crypt?a1475 vault1535 chamber1575 antre1585 underground1594 Peak1600 lustre?1615 open?1644 cunicle1657 subterranean1714 subterrane1759 loch1767 purgatory1797 vug1818 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxix. f. 152v In Tenare is the temple of Neptune, & a caue or Antre [Fr. antre], like vnto the same of Pont called Acherusienne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 139 Antrees [1623 Antars] vast, and Deserts idle. View more context for this quotation 1776 Descr. Killarney i. 4 Here fell the hero; these sad hollow antres, That grove, did hear his moan. 1797 F. G. Waldron Virgin Queen v. ii. 104 With Faith who look Thereon, may antres vast explore; Or, fearless, hear hoarse Neptune roar. 1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 64 Out-shooting..like a meteor-star, Through a vast antre. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xiv. 181 I set him at the narrow mouth of the great snow antre. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 109 She..shunned his house as the antre of an ogre. 1918 E. Phillpotts Spinners x. 62 Her journey was ended and the wonderful country of man's love explored—its oases visited, its antres endured. 1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid iii. 65 You will find an ecstatic, a seeress, who in her antre communicates Destiny. 1987 P. Conrad Song of Love & Death 161 Berlioz called this an architectural work, because of the echoing antres its sonorities require. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1585 |
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