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[In pl. Alps, a. Fr. Alpes:—L. Alpēs name of a mountain system in Switzerland and adjacent countries; said by Servius to be of Celtic origin, and variously explained as meaning ‘high’ (cf. Gaelic alp a high mountain, Irish ailp) and ‘white’ (cf. L. albus).]
1. pl. Proper name of the mountain range which separates France and Italy, etc. sing. A single peak. (Applied in Switzerland to the green pastureland on the mountain side.)
1551Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 64 The alpes that depart Italy and Germany. 1827M. Wilmot More Lett. (1935) 276 An Alpe..is a cottage and little establishment to which a shepherdess conducts a certain number of flocks and herds in the spring. 1857J. von Tautphœus Quits I. xvi. 253 Is this Peissenberg what you call an alp or alm..is it one of those pasture-grounds on the mountains where..the people send their cattle in summer? 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §3. 27 After a rough ascent over the Alp we came to the dead crag. 1922W. G. Kendrew Climates of Cont. xi. 54 Between the forests and the cap of perpetual snow is a zone of alp, pasture land with drought-resisting bushes.
2. Any high, especially snow-capped, mountains.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 112 Certaine Alpes or mountaines directly Southward. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 620 O're many a Frozen, many a Fierie Alpe. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xx. §3 A great Alp, with its purple rocks and eternal snows above.
3. fig.
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1847, 182/1 This adamantine alp of wedlock. 1709Pope Crit. 232 Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. 1854J. St. John Nemesis of Power 156 The loftiest minds, which tower like intellectual Alps.
4. Comb., as alp-horn.
1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 10 Consisting of pieces of wood fixed tightly together, like the Swiss Alp-horn. |