单词 | allée |
释义 | alléen. A straight path or tree-lined avenue, esp. in a formal garden. Cf. earlier alley n.1 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > between lines of persons or things > between lines of trees avenue1664 allée1759 coffee-walk1832 1759 H. Walpole Let. 26 July (1941) IX. 243 Two French allées of old limes. 1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fraser's Mag. June 701/2 The Belevedere allée with its avenue of chestnut trees. 1872 C. D. Warner Saunterings 117 When I walked down the long central allée of the old ground, I saw at the farther end, beyond a fountain, twinkling lights. 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iii. i. 129 The straight allée that leads to the Casino. 1986 New Yorker 24 Mar. 105/2 Kanati knew little allées, called furos, in the inundated forest. 2004 Countryman Jan. 57/1 Many of the great gardens had..established yew hedges and allées. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1759 |
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