单词 | orage |
释义 | oragen. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1477 |
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