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‖ Prado|ˈprado|
[Sp.:—L. prātum meadow.]
The proper name of the public park of Madrid, a fashionable promenade; hence sometimes in transferred applications.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. iii. xv. 60 [He] went to the Prado, a place hard by, of purpose to take the air. [1657J. Davies tr. Voiture's Lett. I. xxx. 58, I have not passed a fair evening in the Prade [Fr. fr. Sp.], but I have wished him there. ]1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. I. 163 If a Lady be new-married, and longs to shew her Equipage, no Place so proper as the Prado. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1808) I. 80 St. James's Park, the Prado of London. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 218 Taking their Sunday promenade upon the fashionable prado of White Conduit House. |