单词 | ponente |
释义 | ponenten. In the western Mediterranean: a westerly wind; the west wind. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > west > specifically in south France and Corsica ponente1576 1576 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Navigation (new ed.) iii. i. f. lvi Beginning at the North, these are their [sc. the winds’] names, Tramontana, Græco, Leuante, Ponente, Maestro [Sp. tramontana, gregal, leuant, siroch, mijorno, leueig, ponent, y mestre]. 1782 J. Armstrong Lett. from Minorca i. 5 The Minorquins call the East-Wind Levante, and the West Ponente. 1805 E. C. Knight Descr. Latium 6 The ponente, or west wind, deserves the character it had amongst the ancient poets. 1866 A. M. H. Brewster St. Martin's Summer 97 The most pleasant wind in Naples is the west, or ponente. 1959 R. E. Huschke Gloss. Meteorol. 433 Ponente, a west wind on the Côte d'Azur.., the northern Roussillon region, and Corsica. 1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline vii. 84 The winds blew... The mistral and the ponente, the tramontana and the grecate and the levanter. 2003 Observer (Nexis) 12 Jan. (Escape pages) There is..the more gentle ponente (westerly). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1576 |
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