单词 | calle |
释义 | callen. In Italy or Spanish-speaking countries: a street or alley; spec. (in Venice) a narrow street or alleyway. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] streetOE rewa1350 gate1488 gate-row1598 calle1611 drive1799 drag1851 drum1851 plate of meat1857 stem1914 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. O6v There are other little streetes called Calli, which we may more properly call land streets..because they are made in the maine land of the Islands farre from the channels. 1730 E. Wright Some Observ. France, Italy, &c. I. 47 These Canals are the great Streets of Venice; for, the Land-Passages (which they call indeed no more than Calle..) are much the same with our Alleys in London. 1850 G. Aguilar Vale of Cedars xix. 153 He..was not likely to have lingered so long, as not even to have reached the Calle till one hour afterwards. 1882 Cent. Mag. Nov. 14/1 Every patch of color, every yard of weather-stained stucco, every..daub of sky above a calle, began to shine and sparkle. 1915 St. Nicholas June 735/1 They never forget that afternoon ramble about the picturesque ‘calles’ and quaint corners of Paso del Norte. a1961 E. Hemingway Garden of Eden (1987) ii. vii. 58 ‘Up yours,’ he said and re-rolled the papers and went out and walked across the street and back on the other side to turn to the left into the Calle Vittoria. 1994 New Yorker 5 Sept. 82/2 My friend Giovanni Alliata-Cini's gesture in the calle yesterday: he took my hand in both of his and held it and warmed it. 2000 S. Vickers Miss Garnet's Angel 170 A crowd of camera-waving tourists was pell-melling round them and he steered her through the chatter and up a narrow calle. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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