单词 | transfretation |
释义 | † transfretationn. Obsolete. The action of crossing or passing over a strait, channel, or narrow sea. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > crossing a narrow sea transfretation1612 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 68 Since the last transfretation of King Richard the second. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xxii. 31 She had a rough passage in her transfretation to Dover Castle. 1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 90 Of this transfretation and Christening, Perkin, in his supposed confession, says not a word. 1782 S. Pegge Curialia Misc. 60 Henry 2. levied numerous subsidies..for his transfretations (to use a Monkish word) into foreign parts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1612 |
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