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单词 orage
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oragen.

Brit. /ɒˈrɑːʒ/, /ˈɒrɑːʒ/, U.S. /ɔˈrɑʒ/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French orage.
Etymology: < Middle French, French orage tempest (c1140 in Old French, 1197 in figurative sense ‘misfortune’; attested earlier (c1112) in sense ‘favourable wind’; compare Anglo-Norman orage wind, storm) < Old French ore wind (c1165; < classical Latin aura aura n.) + -age -age suffix. Compare Old Occitan auratge, Spanish oraje (13th cent.), Catalan oratge (14th cent.).Not fully naturalized in English.
1. A violent or tempestuous wind; a storm. Also figurative. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm
stormc825
un-i-withereOE
tempestc1250
riggc1400
orage1477
buba1500
procellea1500
stour1827
rattler1835
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 75 Whiche knightes beyng..vpon the see, were sore vexed with..grete orages and tempestes.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 137/2 Sodenly descended fro heuen suche a tempest of rayne and of orage that it couerd alle the montayne.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Orage, a storme, tempest, orage.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 183 His gains..were much greater by his practice; for that flowed in upon him like an orage.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §63 632 But there was then enough of the Church and Loyal Party..to stem that Orage of Faction.
1783 C. Macklin True-born Irishman i. 22 We had a great orage—I don't believe..you know what an orage is... I will tell you what an orage is—sir, an orage is a storum [sic].
1939 J. Joyce Let. 5 Aug. (1966) III. 451 When there's an orage my place is under the mattress.
2. An organ stop designed to produce an imitation of the noise of a tempest. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > other stops
twenty-secondc1700
vox humana1708
chorus1776
decima1825
glockenspiel1825
unison stop1830
montre1876
pyramidon1876
harmonic stop1880
orage1891
pipe stop1906
1891 Cent. Dict. Orage,..a stop constructed so as to produce a noise in imitation of the sound of a storm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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