单词 | pelouse |
释义 | pelousen. Chiefly in French contexts. a. An area of grass, a lawn. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > lawn or grass-plot grassOE arbourc1380 harbour1505 green plot1566 grass plot1599 grass work1664 platband1725 lawn1733 garden lawn1771 short-grass1826 pelouse1853 1853 W. M. Thackeray Let. 15–17 May (1946) III. 266 We went on to a pelouse where I used to walk when I was coorting [sic] their mother. 1967 Punch 27 Sept. 464/3 A troutstream flows east to west towards the chateau through beautiful Dornford Yatesian pelouses. 1995 Spectator 28 Jan. 6/2 The customary Schloss of whitewashed stone..with the tennis court, the tonsured pelouse, the aquamarine glint of swimming pool. b. spec. A public enclosure at a French racecourse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > racecourse > [noun] > public enclosure at French racecourse pelouse1923 1923 E. Hemingway Three Stories & Ten Poems 36 The procession of them went around on the other side past the pelouse. 1957 Notes & Queries June 270/1 On the pelouse of open race-courses in and near Paris. 2002 S. Fallon Paris (ed. 4) 229 There's no charge to stand on the pelouse (lawn) in the middle of the track. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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