单词 | water omnibus |
释义 | > as lemmaswater omnibus water omnibus n. now rare = water bus n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > passenger vessel > [noun] > water-bus water omnibus1838 water bus1883 vaporetto1926 motoscafo1936 1838 Bell's Life in London 9 Sept. A new steam packet company has been for some time formed, whose boats will be a description of ‘water omnibus’. 1864 Athenæum 2 Apr. 468/3 The bazar caiques, or water-omnibuses, taking passengers across the Bosphorus. 1972 A. Palmer Metternich xix. 315 Water omnibuses on the Thames were a sound idea, he thought. < as lemmas |
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