| 释义 |
‖ posada|pɒˈsɑːdə|
Also 8 possada.
[Sp., a resting place, an inn, ppl. n. f. posar to lodge: see pose v.1]
1. A (Spanish) inn or place of accommodation for travellers.
1763Crt. & City Mag. Apr. 192/2 The inside of a Spanish posada (or inn) for the night. 1827Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 212 There is no passado for the reception of travellers. 1828W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 285 The squalid miseries of the Spanish posadas. 1891B. Harte 1st Fam. Tasajara II. 102 There were some Mexicans lounging about the posada. 1931P. Guedalla Duke iv. vii. 236 An obliging innkeeper rode twenty miles to tell him that Clausel was safely lodged in his posada. 1950G. Brenan Face of Spain iv. 95, I had not reached the posada till after midnight. 1955Times 4 July 12/7 Dying in poverty in a lowly posada in Valladolid. 1965New statesman 7 May 734/1, I suppose it must have been Balzac who, when Cervantes' posadas and Fielding's coaching-inns were beginning to pall, discovered the potentialities of the boarding-house. 1966Listener 4 Aug. 164/2, I was recently taken by my host in Mexico..to the ancient site of Teotihuacan,..and afterwards to lunch at a posada in the neighbouring village. 1974C. Larson Matthew's Hand xxvii. 161 He owns a posada—an inn.
2. In Mexico, each of a series of visits traditionally paid to different friends during the days before Christmas, representing Mary and Joseph's search for a lodging in Bethlehem.
1930R. Redfield Tepoztlan vi. 128 There is time to rest now, and enjoy the Christmas fiestas... In many houses..the nine posadas are celebrated as they are celebrated all over Mexico... The matrons of the neighborhood have arranged in whose house will take place each of the nine fiestas. 1932Chase & Tyler Mexico x. 202 December 16. Christmas fiesta. Nine days. Posadas. Processions, rodeos, singing. 1959Listener 24 Dec. 1105/1 These and other decorations will take a central place in the posadas which go on night after night for the twelve days before Christmas. The posadas are supposed to represent the vain search of Mary and Joseph to find a lodging in Bethlehem. 1978Tucson Mag. Dec. 105/1 You may witness a real ‘Las Posadas’ celebration December 12 beginning at 7:30 p.m. The candle-lighted procession of Carrillo School children will begin at the school (400 South Main) and continue through one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, in emulation of the journey of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter. The ‘inn’ or posada for this evening's festivities will be the school itself, where refreshments will be served and a pinata will be broken. |