piedmontn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpiːdmɒnt/, U.S.

/ˈpidˌmɑnt/

Forms: 1700s piemont, 1800s– piedmont. Also with capital initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Piedmont.

Etymology: < Piedmont (Italian Piemonte , French Piemont , †Piedmont ; in English from the 16th cent. as Piedmont , †Piemont ), the name of a region in north-west Italy, ultimately either < Italian piede foot (see pedestal n.) + monte mount n.¹, or from the corresponding words in another Romance language or in Latin (the early history of the name is unclear).In form piemont directly after the Italian name.

A. n.

1. A fertile agricultural region of the United States, lying between the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains in the west and the Atlantic coastal plain in the east, and extending from Alabama to New Jersey.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [noun] > of a country > specific

PeakeOE

PeaklandeOE

highland1503

Peak country?1523

piedmont1755

high country1874

altiplano1910

1755 L. Evans Geogr. Ess. 7 Between the South Mountain and the hither Chain of the Endless Mountains..is the most considerable Quantity of valuable Land that the English are possest of... It has yet obtained no general Name, but may properly be called Piemont, from its Situation.

1895 L. C. Cannon (title) Goldmining in the Piedmont.

1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning ii. xi. 257 A rambling country-house high up in the South Carolina piedmont, with the blue, forested hills behind.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 844/2 Rocks of the piedmont..are of early Paleozoic to Precambrian age.

1997 Bryologist 100 145 A macroclimatic gradient from the coast through the Piedmont to the Appalachian Mountains.

a. The region or area at the foot of a mountain or mountain range; spec. a gentle slope leading from the foot of a mountain to a region of flat land.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > area at foot of

skirt1598

piedmont1860

thigh1889

pediment1897

pediment pass1930

pediplane1942

peripediment1942

1860 M. Reid Odd People 430 Having reached the piedmont of the Andes, you still find yourself on a plain, but one which is elevated 3,000 feet above the point from which you started.

1867 Rep. Mineral Resources U.S. 324 The Rocky mountains... The altitude of its eastern and western piedmonts..is fully 6,000 feet.

1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xi. 201 Where closely spaced streams discharge from a mountainous area across a piedmont (a mountainfoot lowland), their deposits coalesce to form a piedmont alluvial plain.

1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. xi. 256 The whole slope from the range to the infilled playa lake is usually termed a piedmont.

1993 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 80 916/2 The palo blanco forest in the piedmont of the sub-Andean chains.

b. An area or shelf of ice at the foot of a mountain in the Antarctic.

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the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > area of ice at foot of high land

piedmont1905

1905 H. T. Ferrar in R. F. Scott Voy. ‘Discovery’ II. 461 Large areas of ice which lie at the foot of high land and which have no obvious single source may be described as ‘piedmonts’.

1914 Geogr. Jrnl. 43 606 The meaning of the term ‘shelf’ can be extended to include old pack ice, old bay ice, ‘schollen-eis’, piedmonts aground or afloat, glacier tongues, etc.

1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 787 There are many kinds of ice in the Antarctic—ice piedmonts, ice streams, ice falls, ice aprons.

B. adj.

1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the piedmont of the United States.

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1855 Southern Literary Messenger 21 672/2 The next breadth of country known in several of the States as the Piedmont district, was more salubrious in its atmosphere.

1927 H. C. Groome Fauquier during Proprietorship i. 1 That region which rolling upward to the foothills of the Appalachians is today known as the Piedmont Plateau.

1976 Sc. Rev. Summer 5 After the failure of the Forty-Five, many Highland families moved to the pine barrens and hills of piedmont North Carolina.

1995 Nature Conservancy July–Aug. 8/2 The Piedmont prairie, named for the rolling foothills on which it is found.

2. Situated or occurring at the foot of a mountain or mountain range.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > foot

submontane1824

piedmont1890

pedimented1940

1890 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 22 662 The way to Mt. Saint Elias led along the borders of one of the largest glaciers in the world, of the Piedmont type.

1891 I. C. Russell in National Geographic Mag. May 122 The Malaspina glacier belongs to a class of ice bodies not previously recognized, which are formed at the bases of mountains by the union of several glaciers from above. Their position suggests the name of Piedmont glaciers for the type.

1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary 334 It brought us to Igiz Yar, a little oasis on a rolling slope of piedmont gravel.

1974 Nature 29 Nov. 373/1 The United States Range where piedmont glaciers descend southwards along the northern edge of the Hazen Plateau.

1991 A. M. Mannion Global Environmental Change (BNC) Deforestation..has caused..water management problems for downslope piedmont and deltaic regions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	piedmont
释义	piedmontn.adj. Brit. /ˈpiːdmɒnt/, U.S. /ˈpidˌmɑnt/ Forms: 1700s piemont, 1800s– piedmont. Also with capital initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Piedmont. Etymology: < Piedmont (Italian Piemonte , French Piemont , †Piedmont ; in English from the 16th cent. as Piedmont , †Piemont ), the name of a region in north-west Italy, ultimately either < Italian piede foot (see pedestal n.) + monte mount n.¹, or from the corresponding words in another Romance language or in Latin (the early history of the name is unclear).In form piemont directly after the Italian name. A. n. 1. A fertile agricultural region of the United States, lying between the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains in the west and the Atlantic coastal plain in the east, and extending from Alabama to New Jersey. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [noun] > of a country > specific PeakeOE PeaklandeOE highland1503 Peak country?1523 piedmont1755 high country1874 altiplano1910 1755 L. Evans Geogr. Ess. 7 Between the South Mountain and the hither Chain of the Endless Mountains..is the most considerable Quantity of valuable Land that the English are possest of... It has yet obtained no general Name, but may properly be called Piemont, from its Situation. 1895 L. C. Cannon (title) Goldmining in the Piedmont. 1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning ii. xi. 257 A rambling country-house high up in the South Carolina piedmont, with the blue, forested hills behind. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 844/2 Rocks of the piedmont..are of early Paleozoic to Precambrian age. 1997 Bryologist 100 145 A macroclimatic gradient from the coast through the Piedmont to the Appalachian Mountains. 2. a. The region or area at the foot of a mountain or mountain range; spec. a gentle slope leading from the foot of a mountain to a region of flat land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > area at foot of skirt1598 piedmont1860 thigh1889 pediment1897 pediment pass1930 pediplane1942 peripediment1942 1860 M. Reid Odd People 430 Having reached the piedmont of the Andes, you still find yourself on a plain, but one which is elevated 3,000 feet above the point from which you started. 1867 Rep. Mineral Resources U.S. 324 The Rocky mountains... The altitude of its eastern and western piedmonts..is fully 6,000 feet. 1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xi. 201 Where closely spaced streams discharge from a mountainous area across a piedmont (a mountainfoot lowland), their deposits coalesce to form a piedmont alluvial plain. 1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. xi. 256 The whole slope from the range to the infilled playa lake is usually termed a piedmont. 1993 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 80 916/2 The palo blanco forest in the piedmont of the sub-Andean chains. b. An area or shelf of ice at the foot of a mountain in the Antarctic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > area of ice at foot of high land piedmont1905 1905 H. T. Ferrar in R. F. Scott Voy. ‘Discovery’ II. 461 Large areas of ice which lie at the foot of high land and which have no obvious single source may be described as ‘piedmonts’. 1914 Geogr. Jrnl. 43 606 The meaning of the term ‘shelf’ can be extended to include old pack ice, old bay ice, ‘schollen-eis’, piedmonts aground or afloat, glacier tongues, etc. 1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 787 There are many kinds of ice in the Antarctic—ice piedmonts, ice streams, ice falls, ice aprons. B. adj. 1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the piedmont of the United States. ΚΠ 1855 Southern Literary Messenger 21 672/2 The next breadth of country known in several of the States as the Piedmont district, was more salubrious in its atmosphere. 1927 H. C. Groome Fauquier during Proprietorship i. 1 That region which rolling upward to the foothills of the Appalachians is today known as the Piedmont Plateau. 1976 Sc. Rev. Summer 5 After the failure of the Forty-Five, many Highland families moved to the pine barrens and hills of piedmont North Carolina. 1995 Nature Conservancy July–Aug. 8/2 The Piedmont prairie, named for the rolling foothills on which it is found. 2. Situated or occurring at the foot of a mountain or mountain range. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > foot submontane1824 piedmont1890 pedimented1940 1890 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 22 662 The way to Mt. Saint Elias led along the borders of one of the largest glaciers in the world, of the Piedmont type. 1891 I. C. Russell in National Geographic Mag. May 122 The Malaspina glacier belongs to a class of ice bodies not previously recognized, which are formed at the bases of mountains by the union of several glaciers from above. Their position suggests the name of Piedmont glaciers for the type. 1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary 334 It brought us to Igiz Yar, a little oasis on a rolling slope of piedmont gravel. 1974 Nature 29 Nov. 373/1 The United States Range where piedmont glaciers descend southwards along the northern edge of the Hazen Plateau. 1991 A. M. Mannion Global Environmental Change (BNC) Deforestation..has caused..water management problems for downslope piedmont and deltaic regions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1755
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