单词 | messageries maritimes |
释义 | Messageries Maritimesn. A French sea freight service (also used as the name of a shipping line). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship-owning > [noun] > ship-owner > company ocean line1873 Messageries Maritimes1887 shipping company1897 shipping line1908 shipping house1919 1886 Science 17 Sept. 256 I sailed for Marseilles for the Piraeus on the steamship Ava; Capt. Aug. Bretel, of the Compagnie des messageries maritimes, commanding.] 1887 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. Sept. 526 Steamers carrying the electric light may now pass through the [Suez] canal at night. The Peninsular and Oriental Company and the Messageries Maritimes have already availed themselves of this privilege. 1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island p. x Many Englishmen like Frenchmen better than Englishmen, and never go on board a Peninsular and Oriental steamer when one of the ships of the Messageries Maritimes is available. 1931 E. Waugh Remote People 12 French colonial officials, their wives and disorderly children..make up the bulk of a normal Messageries Maritimes passenger list. 1975 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. June 379 Messageries Maritimes..did not operate motorships in the trade before 1928. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1887 |
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