单词 | latin quarter |
释义 | > as lemmasLatin Quarter Latin Quarter n. [ < French Quartier latin; compare quarter n. 13.] the district of Paris on the left or south bank of the Seine, where Latin was spoken in the Middle Ages, and where students and artists live and the principal university buildings are situated; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in France > Paris > parts of Quartier Latin1857 Latin Quarter1869 left bank1871 quartier1896 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas friars1479 foreign1514 acropolis1570 sestiere1599 shopping district1837 downstreet1865 Latin Quarter1869 midtown1882 club-land1885 flat-land1889 brick area1895 turf1953 grey area1959 office park1963 bed-sitter-land1968 edge city1968 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xv. 150 The grisettes!..so devoted to their poverty-stricken students of the Latin Quarter. 1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 55 He had chosen to study the attractions of Paris from..a furnished hotel, in the Latin Quarter. 1904 J. T. Grein Dram. Crit. IV. 175 It was a generous mixture of the Latin Quarter and the various queer streets where London minor poetry flourishes. 1904 Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 4/4 They are good English garden-party hats, but they don't do for midi on an autumn day in the Latin Quarter. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 17 And there's your Latin quarter hat, he said. 1930 E. B. Chancellor (title) London's old Latin Quarter, being an account of Tottenham Court Road and its immediate surroundings. 1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) iv. 54 There is good reason now for wags to call the university ‘the Latin Quarter of Oxford’. 1968 Listener 4 July 5/2 I left my friends in the Latin Quarter three weeks ago in a mood of exhausted elation. < as lemmas |
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