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‖ jornada|dʒɔːˈnɑːdə|
[Sp. (xorˈnaða), = It. giornata, F. journée, journey, lit. day's space, work, or journey; in Sp. also ‘an act in a Comedy’ (Minsheu, 1599).]
†1. An act of a play; a book or canto of a poem. Obs.
1656R. Flecknoe (title) Diarium, or Journall; divided into 12 Jornadas in Burlesque Rhyme or Drolling Verse. 1667Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesie Dram. Wks. 1725 I. 30 The Spaniards at this day allow but three Acts, which they call Jornadas, to a Play. 1833Longfellow Outre-Mer Pr. Wks. 1886 I. 197 The second act, or jornada, discovers Eusebio as the leader of a band of robbers.
2. In Mexico, etc.: A march or journey performed in a day; spec. a journey across a tract where there is no water and consequently no place to halt; also, the waterless district thus traversed. Also journada, -ado.
1828in Missouri Hist. Rev. (1914) VIII. 190 At 4 p.m. we entered Jornada. 1844J. J. Webb Adv. Santa Fe Trade 156 Stopping over for a few hours..to prepare for the journey of fifty miles to the Arkansas, without water, [we] started into the jornada. Ibid. 119 Whether..to..travel a longer distance and through two jornadas. 1845J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Expedition 260 The caravans sometimes continue below to the end of the river, from which there is a very long jornada of perhaps sixty miles. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado v. (1862) 49 The route led in a zigzag direction across the mountain chain from one watering-place to another, with frequent jornadas (journeys without water). 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xlii. 327 The events that occurred to us in the passage of that terrible jornada. 1859Marcy Prairie Trav. xi. 52 In some localities 50 or 60 miles, and even greater distances, are frequently traversed without water; these long stretches are called by the Mexicans ‘journadas’, or day's journeys. |