| 释义 |
‖ pelouse|pəluz|
[Fr.]
An area of grass, a lawn; spec. a public enclosure at a French racecourse. Also transf.
1923E. Hemingway Three Stories and Ten Poems 36 The procession of them went around on the other side past the pelouse. 1928Observer 11 Mar. 13/3 The Longchamp tote..will unify the betting in all three parts of the course—paddock, pavilion and pélouse. 1953E. E. Clark Indian Legends 222 A large area of land in south⁓eastern Washington [State] thought to have been called pelouse, ‘the grass lands’ by French-Canadian voyageurs. 1957N. & Q. June 270/1 On the pelouse of open race⁓courses in and near Paris. 1967Punch 27 Sept. 464/3 A troutstream flows east to west towards the chateau through beautiful Dornford Yatesian pelouses. |