单词 | rialto |
释义 | rialton. A place or institution in which commodities are traded; an exchange, a mart. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > financial centre street1555 rialto1600 city1621 alley1720 Lombard Street1721 money centre1838 Wall Street1841 society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > place where merchants meet change1317 burse1553 exchange1589 rialto1600 trades hall1700 trade hall1822 bourse1845 society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] marketlOE fair?a1300 marta1450 open market1455 tryst1776 feria1844 rialto1879 mkt.1896 1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 6 A number of these Almanakes or lying weather Authors being to be sold in the Burse, or Rialto [It. trovandosi per Rialto]. 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 292 The City Ape is expressed as in a Rialto or Royall-Exchange; Tapestrie-works, Needle-works, Chaines, Girdles and Hangers, Belts, &c. to life shadowed. 1845 R. Browning Let. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 18 The Rialto where verse-merchants most do congregate. 1869 S. R. Hole Bk. Roses i. 11 There the poor Rose-trees stand..in the spring a rialto, rendezvous, common-room, and tap for all the riff-raff of the insect world. 1879 Scribner's Monthly 19 299/1 In Paris, all trades and callings have their Rialto. 1901 Daily Chron. 23 Sept. 5/2 It was this..that made it some forty or fifty years ago the rialto of the West Indian islands. 1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 500/1 The business of dramatic criticism is..with drama as an art and the moment it concerns itself with drama in any other way it ceases to be dramatic criticism and becomes either journalistic reporting or mere Rialto cheese-mongering. 1990 Harper's Mag. Oct. 7/1 There is no place for a rialto in a modern capitalist economic system; the telephone and fax machine have supplanted it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600 |
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