单词 | maritime provinces |
释义 | > as lemmasMaritime Provinces Maritime Provinces n. the Canadian Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, having coastlines on the Gulf of St Lawrence or the Atlantic Ocean; cf. sense B. 1b; see also Atlantic provinces n. at Atlantic adj. and n. Additions. ΚΠ 1847 J. Roy Hist. Canada IV. i. 165 These Provinces are of two classes—first, the Inland Portions, watered only by great lakes and rivers, and, secondly, the Maritime Provinces. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxiv. 392 A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had..left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces. 1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. iv. v. 728 Her deep, rather musical voice, with its Maritime Province accent. 1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 96/2 Barachois is used extensively for a coastal saltwater pond on the south and west coast of Newfoundland, and along the Gulf of St. Lawrence shores of the three maritime provinces and Quebec. < as lemmas |
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