单词 | stationnaire |
释义 | stationnairen. Now historical. A naval guardship stationed at a foreign port for the use of an ambassador; esp. such a ship belonging to a European nation, stationed at Constantinople (modern Istanbul). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > look-out or reconnaissance vessel > guard-ship stationed for use of ambassador stationnaire1865 1865 H. Bulwer Let. 5 Feb. in Rep. & Corr. Steam Transports Eng. & India 57 in Accts. & Papers (House of Commons) XL. It is thought desirable that the British Government should have a stationnaire at Alexandria, as the French Government has. 1895 F.O. 64/1351 (Public Record Office) No. 284 He feared the arrival of the second stationnaires would inevitably excite ill-feeling amongst the Mahomedans. 1914 R. Rankin Inner Hist. Balkan War xii. 364 As yet no warships were at hand except the weakly-armed ‘stationnaires’ or European guard-ships which at all times lie in the Bosphorus for the use of the Ambassadors. 1958 M. Buchanan Ambassador's Daughter vi. 68 An armed sloop or stationnaire always anchored in the vicinity in case of a rising of the Turks. 2006 R. F. Holland & D. W. Markides Brit. & Hellenes v. 109 Thereafter only one stationnaire for each power was kept permanently in Cretan waters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865 |
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