单词 | jornada |
释义 | jornadan.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > canto fitc888 canto1590 canticle1596 canton1609 jornada1656 duan1763 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > act of a play actc1520 jornada1656 1656 R. Flecknoe (title) The Diarium, or Journall: Divided into 12. Jornadas in Burlesque Rhime or Drolling Verse. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 17 The Spaniards at this day allow but three Acts, which they call Jornadas, to a Play. 1833 H. W. Longfellow Outre-Mer in Prose Wks. (1886) I. 197 The second act, or jornada, discovers Eusebio as the leader of a band of robbers. 2. In Mexico, etc.: A march or journey performed in a day; spec. a journey across a tract where there is no water and consequently no place to halt; also, the waterless district thus traversed. Also journada, -ado. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > non-stop stretch1699 jornada1828 non-stop1909 the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > waterless droughta1000 dryheada1300 drynessa1398 carbuncle1577 jornada1828 thirst-land1878 dry land1893 thirst-country1895 thirst1906 dry1909 dust-bowl1936 1828 in Missouri Hist. Rev. (1914) VIII. 190 At 4 p.m. we entered Jornada. 1844 J. J. Webb Adventures in Santa Fe Trade 156 Stopping over for a few hours..to prepare for the journey of fifty miles to the Arkansas, without water, [we] started into the jornada. 1844 J. J. Webb Adventures in Santa Fe Trade 119 Whether..to..travel a longer distance and through two jornadas. 1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 260 The caravans sometimes continue below to the end of the river, from which there is a very long jornada of perhaps sixty miles. 1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xxi. 173 On leaving the Pischepa, a reach of little more than one jornada (day's travel) leads over the mountain range. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. v. 37 The route led in a zigzag direction across the mountain chain, from one watering-place to another, with frequent jornadas (journeys without water). 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters III. i. 4 The events that occurred to us in the passage of that terrible jornada. 1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler xi. 52 In some localities 50 or 60 miles, and even greater distances, are frequently traversed without water; these long stretches are called by the Mexicans ‘journadas’, or day's journeys. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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