单词 | parkade |
释义 | † parkaden.1 U.S. Obsolete. An area of open ground; spec. a strip of ground separating a building from the nearby street, and planted with lawn or shrubs. ΚΠ 1889 Tyrone (Pa.) Daily Herald 2 Feb. 4/2 The register shows the following guests in the Parkade drive yesterday: Robert McCoy and Constable Snyder,..P. Flynn and wife,..who took advantage of the good sleghing [sic] in the ‘Parque’. 1897 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin. Monthly Jrnl. Dec. 1035/1 A great parkade, or playground, south of which, and at the south entrance to the park, stands the Lincoln Statue. 1911 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 21 Apr. 2/3 The building will now set flush with the walk on Avenue A. It is the intention to have a parkade of some kind between the street and building, and it will be set back at least 20 feet from the street. 1920 Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier & Reporter 16 June 7/2 The parkade immediately in front of the office building is being transformed into a beauty spot with flowers and ornamental trees. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018). parkaden.2 Originally U.S. 1. A parking lot. Now rare. ΚΠ 1937 Sunday Reg. (Beckley, W. Va.) 6 June 13/1 (advt.) Over one hundred attractive lots to choose from. In one section..a life-time concrete parkade has been constructed with concrete sidewalks surrounding. 1951 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 14 Oct. 5 c/4 A modern shopper parking lot will replace three buildings... The ‘Virginia Avenue Parkade’..will have a 250-car capacity. 2. A building designed and constructed for the parking of vehicles; a multi-storey car park. Now chiefly Canadian and South African.It is likely that quots. 1941, 1950, and 2013 are proper nouns. ΚΠ 1941 Philadelphia Inquirer 23 Feb. 18 (caption) ‘Parkade’, new garage building being erected. 1950 Jewish Exponent 8 Dec. 11/4 (advt.) For Bonwit Patrons... Adequate Parking at special rates at the new Parkade garage. 1958 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 31 May 1/1 A young woman threatened..to jump from the top of a six-storey parkade in downtown Calgary. 1971 Sunday Express (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 17/4 The show will be held on the first and second floors of the parkade. 1997 D. Carpenter Banjo Lessons iii. 225 Check the parkade off 103rd and Jasper, level five. Every Saturday night there's a drug smorgasbord. 2013 L. Williams S. Afr. Dream Trip 202 Opposite the arrivals level of the terminal is the Parkade Centre, a multi-storey car park. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11889n.21937 |
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