单词 | east side |
释义 | east siden. 1. The eastern part or side of something. Also (formerly): the east. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] > part or place eastdealeOE east halfeOE eastlandOE eastdalec1175 estrichea1200 East-countryc1325 east sidec1325 orientc1375 eastc1390 easta1475 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 26 (MED) Homber bringz bi norþe muche god & wide, Severne bi west souþ, temese bi þe est side. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 79 (MED) Inde haþ in þe est side þe sonne risynge. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20922 (MED) Vt-wit þe toun apon þe est side. c1555 in J. Spottiswoode Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh (1847) 349 The eest syde of Newtoun. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. ix. f. 23v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I First of all vpon the east side of the hauen a great hilly point, called Downesend. 1611 Bible (King James) Num. ii. 3 On the East side toward the rising of the Sunne. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 119 On the East side of the Garden place, Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbes. View more context for this quotation 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. i. 5 The east side of it within is wainscotted with jasper and beautiful marbles. 1792 J. Fennell Rev. Proc. at Paris 187 A great marquise was erected on the east side of the altar. 1837 W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 148 A tract of land on the east side of the town has like-wise been divided into 23 outlots of five acres each. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 33 At the east side of the Square is the new Court-house. 1926 Travel Nov. 40/2 In 1922 most of Miami was on the east side of the railway tracks. 1957 J. Morris Market of Seleukia ii. xviii. 164 A Jordanian is now a ‘west banker’ or an ‘east banker’ according to whether he lives on the west or the east side of the Jordan river. 2002 A. Proulx That Old Ace in Hole (2003) xi. 127 LaVon pointed out..a small, pitched-roof, board-and-batten building with a lean-to on the east side. 2. North American. Frequently with capital initials. The eastern part of a city; esp. the eastern part of Manhattan. Also in Upper East Side, Lower East Side.The East Side of Manhattan is associated with the wealthy elite living esp. in the Upper East Side, and formerly also with immigration and poverty, esp. in the Lower East Side. ΚΠ 1757 W. Smith Hist. N.Y. 187 The Ships lie off in the Roads, on the East Side of the Town. 1761 E. Stiles Extracts from Itineraries (1916) 136 The dividing Line between Windsor & Hartford East side. 1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 12 Jan. 4/3 Take any omnibus that goes as far as Sixty-second street on the East side of town. 1861 A. C. Wheeler Chron. Milwaukee xvii. 146 They of the East side claimed the right to do as they pleased in regard to their locality. 1883 J. Fiske Let. 25 Mar. (1940) 505 Her great ambition was to establish a small hospital in the heart of the East Side. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 21 Aug. The Health Commissioner to-day made a tour of the East Side. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) v. ii. 93 The appearance of a newly arrived immigrant was still a novel spectacle on the East Side. 1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 48/1 I was met by a man with a frock-coat manner. ‘Certainly, Madam, there's no question about our work. We do the cleaning for the Elite of the East Side.’ 1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 203 A seven-piece New Orleans band led by Johnson opened at the Stuyvesant Casino, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 1991 J. Barman West beyond West xiii. 319 [His] short stories drew respectively on a central interior childhood and long residence in East Side Vancouver. 1999 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 12 Aug. (Tempo section) 9 A room in a beautiful old building on the posh, luxurious Upper East Side overlooking Fifth Avenue. 2009 New Yorker 4 May 75/1 A katzenjammer scene of..all-around youthful effrontery on the Lower East Side. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2). ΚΠ 1852 Republic July 48/2 The east-side public have been favored with a farewell glimpse of Miss Fanny Wallack. 1882 J. D. McCabe New York li. 642 The original ‘Bowery Girl’..was the perfection of East Side poetry. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 8/2 The Bowery brigade, recruited from..patrons of the eastside dime hotels and doss-houses. 1905 H. James N.Y. & Hudson in N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 819 The East-side cafés..showed, to my inner sense, beneath their bedizzenment, as torture-rooms of the living idiom. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 603/2 New York, where he had the usual East Side immigrant upbringing. 1969 Ebony Jan. 121/1 This is an area [of Cleveland] to which black people fled just as soon as they were able to escape the East Side ghettos. 1971 J. F. Hunter Gay Insider v. 112 Its location near some of the groovy Upper East Side bars..make it a social center. 2001 Vogue Oct. 310/1 Legions of East Side socialites are just saying no to..stratospheric dry-cleaning bills. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325 |
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