estafetten.

/ɛstafɛt/

Etymology: < French estafette, < Italian staffetta, diminutive of staffa stirrup, < Old High German stapho step.

A mounted courier.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > mounted messenger

chivauchier1420

staffette1545

hobbler157.

estafette1792

dispatch-rider1899

1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 84 (note) An estafette was despatched on the part of our Ministers at the Hague, requiring Marshal Bender to suspend his march.

1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VIII. 649 They can secure the services of the Estafette..only by placing him in the centre of the escort.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. ii. 557 Diplomatic correspondence, carried once by breathless estaffettes.

Derivatives

estaˈfetted adj. provided with estafettes; in quot. 1837 apparently taken as ‘provided with arrangements for posting’.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > having arrangements for posting

estafetted1837

1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) 18 The best estafetted road, the road to Rome.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	estafette
释义	estafetten. /ɛstafɛt/ Etymology: < French estafette, < Italian staffetta, diminutive of staffa stirrup, < Old High German stapho step. A mounted courier. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > mounted messenger chivauchier1420 staffette1545 hobbler157. estafette1792 dispatch-rider1899 1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 84 (note) An estafette was despatched on the part of our Ministers at the Hague, requiring Marshal Bender to suspend his march. 1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VIII. 649 They can secure the services of the Estafette..only by placing him in the centre of the escort. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. ii. 557 Diplomatic correspondence, carried once by breathless estaffettes. Derivatives estaˈfetted adj. provided with estafettes; in quot. 1837 apparently taken as ‘provided with arrangements for posting’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > having arrangements for posting estafetted1837 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) 18 The best estafetted road, the road to Rome. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1792
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