请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 rentrée
释义

rentréen.

Brit. /ˈrɒntreɪ/, /ˈrɒ̃treɪ/, U.S. /ˌrɑnˈtreɪ/, /ˈrɑnˌtreɪ/
Forms: 1700s– rentrée, 1800s rentree.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rentrée.
Etymology: < French rentrée return (13th cent. in Old French), (in a game of cards) card or cards drawn after the initial deal (1694), return to work after a holiday (1718), reappearance at a venue on the part of a performer (1811), use as noun of past participle of rentrer re-enter v.
1. Cards. In various games: the action or an instance of drawing a card or cards; the card or cards so drawn. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1768 tr. Abbé Bellecour Acad. Play 7 If by taking in one Card only, you make a Quint Major, and gain the Point and Cards, which could not be done with the forty-four, without a very extraordinary Rentrée, or Take-in.
1783 W. Hooper Rational Recreations (ed. 2) I. 105 Rentrée, or take in, of the elder.
1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) App. 111 He cannot rectify his mistake after either of the Adversaries has taken in his rentrée.
2. A return after an absence from one's accustomed or former place, esp. (a) a reappearance at a venue on the part of a performer, etc.; (b) (in France) a return home after an annual holiday.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] > instance(s) of
efter-chara1400
returna1527
rearrival1738
rentrée1774
go-back1858
1774 H. Walpole Let. 7 Nov. in Wks. (1798) V. 566 What care you, madam about our parliament? You will see the rentrée of the old one, with songs and epigrams into the bargain.
1834 Musical Libr. Suppl. II. 24/1 Tamburini made his rentree as Fernando, and performed the part admirably.
1889 Daily News 29 Jan. 6/6 The ‘prodigy’ season..began yesterday, when Master O—— H—— made his rentrée in London.
1892 E. Dowson Let. 22 Aug. (1967) 240 Many thanks for your note, which I found on my rentrée last week.
1896 M. Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. 11 20 His rentrée into the still silent town strengthened his..resolves.
1913 M. Beerbohm Fifty Caricatures Contents p. v Rentrée of Mr. George Moore.
1961 Guardian 22 Sept. 16/1 The Rentrée is the return to the great cities, the beginning of a new school year.
1992 New Yorker 3 Feb. 72/1 After moving to Vienna, Mozart abandoned the genre, except for that Great C-minor Mass, which he planned for a Salzburg rentrée.
1997 Sight & Sound Sept. 4/3 The second week of the rentrée—the return-to-work which provides the French box-office year with its two or three biggest weeks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1768
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/11 22:20:19