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单词 gondola
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gondolan.

Brit. /ˈɡɒndələ/, /ˈɡɒndl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈɡɑndələ/
Forms: 1500s gondala, 1500s–1700s gondelay, 1600s gondalo, gondelo, gondilo, gondolo, gundalo, (1700s U.S.) -delo(e, -dello, -dilo(w, -dolo, 1600s–1800s gondole, (1600s gundel, 1700s gondel), 1500s– gondola. Also 1800s U.S. gondelo, gundelow, gundalow, gundola.
Etymology: < Italian gondola (whence also Spanish gondola, Portuguese gondola, French gondole) of obscure origin: see Diez, Körting, etc.
1.
a. A light flat-bottomed boat or skiff in use on the Venetian canals, having a cabin amidships and rising to a sharp point at either end; it is usually propelled by one man at the stern with a single oar.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > canal boat > gondola
gondola1549
gondolet1602
zendaletto1794
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 83v [He kept] one man, or two at the most, to row his Gondola.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1587) 52 And from their battered barks commanded to be cast Some Gondalaes wherein upon our pleasant streams they past.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R2 A litle Gondelay.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. v. sig. G3 Rowing vpon the water in a gondole, With the most cunning Curtizan, of Venice. View more context for this quotation
1611 W. Venner Beame of Brightnesse sig. B2v No ratling Cart or Waggon runnes in me, but gentle Gundels swimming ore the streame.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 36.
1670 London Gaz. No. 437/2 He was..attended by great numbers of his friends in their Pleasure-boats and Gondola's.
1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 169 There's a Canal..and another square Place in which the King has little Gundoloes painted and gilt.
1739 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 6 Nov. (1966) II. 159 The greatest equipage is a gondola, that holds eight persons.
1764 Oxford Sausage 157 O'er Seas of bliss Peace guide her Gondelay.
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xix. 10
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. i. 100 The far lights of skimming gondolas.
1831 T. Moore Summer Fête 404 Light gondolas, of Venetian breed.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 281 My love of gliding about in gondolas.
b. transferred. (See quots.)
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1827 Mayfair i. 31 There beauty half her glory veils In cabs, those gondolas on wheels.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxvii He hailed a cruising Hansom,..‘'Tis the gondola of London’, said Lothair as he sprang in.
2.
a. A ship's boat. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of
float-boat1322
cocka1400
cockboat1413
longboat1421
cogc1430
cog boat1440
espyne1487
jolywat1495
barge1530
fly-boat1598
gondola1626
cocket-boat1668
yawl1670
whale-boat1682
pinnace1685
launch1697
jolly-boat1728
cutter1745
gig1790
pram1807
jolly1829
whaler1893
1626 P. Nichols Sir F. Drake Revived (1628) 9 A ship of Spaine..(espying our foure Pinnaces),..sent away her Gundeloe towards the Towne, to giue warning.
b. Some kind of small war-vessel. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > types of small war vessel
armadilla1695
gondola1799
Symondite1927
1799 Naval Chron. 1 273 The Brest fleet, consisting of thirty-two sail, five frigates, and five gondolas, had put to sea.
3. U.S. A large flat-bottomed river boat of light build; a lighter; used also as a gunboat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > lighter
lighter1372
lightener1526
cabarra1670
gondola1767
lighterman1770
1767 Boston Gaz. 21 Sept. (advt.) Wanted Immediately, A Sett of good Hands, to load and tend on a Gundalo.
1774 J. Wentworth in N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1869) XXIII. 276 The cannon were sent in Gondolas up the River into the country.
1777 E. Badlam in N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1848) II. 49 Colonel Brown has taken Ticonderoga..a number of armed gundeloes, one armed sloop [etc.].
1805 W. Hunter in Naval Chron. 13 39 Two Gundolas came down and fired at us.
1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxiv. 31 Vessels are floated down to the sea, by means of flat-boats or lighters, here [i.e. in the northern U.S.] called gondolas.
1866 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 254 When favoring breezes deigned to blow The square sail of the gundelow.
1886 B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. I. iii. 51 The Potomac River..was navigable..in long, flat-bottomed boats, sharp at both ends, called ‘gondolas’.
4.
a. = gondola-car n. U.S.
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1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 480 Gondola... The use of the word for a peculiarly shaped railroad-car is not unknown in England.
1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 7/3 The Central News New York correspondent says..When the driver pulled up a heavy ‘gondola’, or low goods wagon, broke loose from the adjacent siding.
1907 J. London in Cosmopolitan July 263/1 A flat car..is known among the fraternity as a ‘gondola’, with the second syllable emphasized and pronounced long.
1914 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Apr. 10/1 At the end of the stretch of wheels was the hangout, barricaded on one side by a corrugated iron windshield..and on the other by a derelict gondola freight car.
1922 H. Titus Timber iii. 37 Two Indians were loading pulp wood into a gondola on the siding.
1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xvii. 176 They left..on a freight-train..travelling in a low roofless car known as a ‘gondola’: the gondola was about two-thirds full of gravel.
b. An elongated car attached to the under side of a dirigible balloon or airship. [German, Dutch gondel.] Also transferred, applied to a structure that resembles such a car in its purpose and mode of attachment.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > basket or car
basket1783
car1783
gallery1784
nacelle1853
boat car1877
gondola1896
1881 W. D. Hay 300 Years Hence xi. 301 You step into an aërial gondola,..and are at once borne upwards.]
1896 Strand Mag. July 78/2 The finished balloon..is 97 ft. in all from the cap to the bottom of the basket or gondola.
1908 World's Work XVI. 10804/2 He suspended his gondolas close underneath the hulk.
1914 Evening News 15 Oct. 1/6 The distance between the gondola carrying the engines and the body of the airship has been very much reduced.
1930 G. G. Jackson World's Aeroplanes 17 Each ship was given four propellers..and these were driven by exceptionally powerful motors, divided between two cars, or gondolas, as they came to be called... The gondolas resembled the Italian craft, from which they took their name, in general design, but they were, of course, much larger.
1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools viii. 89 When the balloon ‘Explorer II’ made its ascent to 72,395 feet..in 1935, spores of seven moulds were enclosed in small quartz tubes fastened to the outside of the gondola.
1955 M. Savill tr. A. Galland First & Last xxiv. 202 Two additional 20-mm. cannons were mounted below the wings. These ‘gondolas’ or ‘bath-tubs’, as we called them, [etc.].
1959 Sunday Times 5 Apr. 7/8 With a float containing petrol to provide buoyancy, and a pressure-proof ‘gondola’ underneath.
1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 70 The ‘Wheel’, as we called it, combined many of the control problems we would encounter in real space flight. It consists of a pill-shaped gondola..suspended at the end of a 50-foot arm.
c. The car attached to a ski-lift. Also gondola lift.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski-lift
T-bar1889
tow1937
chair-lift1940
ski-lift1940
ski tow1942
skimobile1946
platter pull1949
Poma1954
telecabine1954
gondola lift1957
1957 in Amer. Speech (1963) 38 205 Gondola, gondola lift, a number of smaller enclosed cabins seating two or four persons each. The gondolas are stored at the base station poma lift style and are clamped onto the moving cable after loading.
1958 M. West Second Victory vii. 97 The Gondelbahn, the long aerial cable that swung the shining gondolas up the slope to the summit of the Grauglockner.
1964 Harper's Bazaar Nov. 140/1 New this season: gondola lift.
1970 Times 18 Dec. 20/2 Vail offers superb skiing... A new development..adds a second gondola.
d. An island counter used in self-service shops for the display of merchandise.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > counter > type of counter
trade counter1856
bargain counter1888
gondola1942
serve-over1950
stocking bar1962
1942 Super Market Nov. 53 End of gondola displays may be constructed by using disc-shaped cardboard in graduated sizes. One edge of the cardboard should be cut straight and even in order to rest against the gondola.
1960 Guardian 16 May 3/5 Enough space is left round the ‘gondolas’ (the movable counters) to let shoppers take short cuts.
1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization ii. 19 Other types of counter in common use are refrigerated runs..and gondolas—a self-service central fixture.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
gondola-beak n.
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1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. iii. 101 Seeing the gondola-beak come actually inside the door at Danieli's.
gondola-boat n. Obsolete
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1814 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 123 On one [canal] are many fine gondola boats.
gondola office n.
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1821 T. Moore Mem. (1853) III. 252 Lord John drove me to the gondole office.
C2.
gondola-car n. U.S. a railway car having a platform body with low sides.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 407/2 Gondola-Car.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Aug. 14/2 The other rolling-stock comprises four double-decked open cars, twenty platform cars, twenty gondola cars [etc.].
gondola wagon n. (also gondola waggon) = gondola-car n.
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1918 Chambers's Jrnl. July 459/2 The comparatively new ‘gondola’ wagon serves that purpose admirably.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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