单词 | mound city |
释义 | > as lemmasMound City Mound City n. U.S. (a nickname for) St Louis, Missouri. ΚΠ 1848 Ladies' Repository 8 71/1 In St. Louis, the ‘Mound City’ of the west, a fashionable refreshment house rises from the summit of one of these lovely elevations. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 282 Mound-City, the city of St. Louis, so-called from the number of artificial mounds that occupied the site on which the city is built. 1929 Cincinnati Enquirer 1 Oct. 11/1 They dropped their first game in the Mound City. 1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 7 Sept. b1/3 (heading) From Everest to Mound City. Meet Ed Viesturs, the top U.S. high-altitude mountain climber, at the St. Louis Science Center's preview showing..of..‘Everest’. < as lemmas |
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