单词 | montgolfier |
释义 | Montgolfiern. A balloon raised by heated air instead of gas; a hot-air balloon. Also more fully Montgolfier balloon.The first voyage made in a Montgolfier balloon was by Pilatre de Rozier on 21 November 1783. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > balloon > types of balloon fire balloon1754 Montgolfier1783 hot-air balloon1843 sausage1858 sausage balloon1874 observation balloon1909 obbo1925 aerostat1974 1783 in Catal. W. H. Robinson Ltd. (Newcastle-on-Tyne) (1926) No. 14. 49 (caption) The Montgolfier, a first rate of the French aerial navy. 1784 Morning Herald 4 Oct. 3/3 A splendid entertainment..in which..they had launched a Montgolfiere, a balloon filled with rarified air, thirty feet high. 1849 G. Head Tour Rome I. 46 A huge paper ‘Montgolfier’, or fire balloon. 1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 646/2 The longest voyage ever executed in a Montgolfière. 1905 G. Bacon Balloons ii. 28 Instead of a gallery to carry the passengers, as in the ‘Montgolfier’, a car shaped like a boat was suspended from the net. 1974 Country Life 11 Apr. 860/1 Hot-air ballooning..has become an increasingly popular sport in Britain... The balloons in use today are known as Montgolfiers. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 494/2 The hot air balloon or montgolfiere relies for lift entirely on the temperature differential between the atmospheric gases inside the balloon and the air outside. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1783 |
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