单词 | left bank |
释义 | left bankn.adj. A. n. 1. The bank of a river that lies on the left of a person facing downstream. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of river > left left bank1600 rive gauche1838 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill vii. 230 Rifana of Santa Maria..is fifteene miles from the left banke of the riuer of Doro. 1762 Amer. Gazetteer II. at Granada, New Ximenes travelled by land along the left bank of that river. 1837 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece IV. xxxiii. 319 They then proceeded along the left bank of the Tigris. 1891 Amer. Angler May 346/1 The left bank, where the footing is fairly good. 1944 D. Thomson French Foreign Policy (Oxf. Pamphlets on World Affairs) 5 In 1936..Hitler paved the way for all further aggressions by occupying and remilitarizing the left bank of the Rhine. 1980 Winnipeg Free Press 19 Jan. (Leisure section) 13 Billingsgate, on the left bank of the Thames near London Bridge, has rich historical associations. 2008 S. A. Dupree Red River Valley ix. 104 The new, north channel was formed in 1838 when the river overran the levee on its left bank during a storm. 2. spec. Usually with capital initials. The part of Paris south of the River Seine, noted for its intellectual and artistic life. Cf. Latin Quarter n. at Latin adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in France > Paris > parts of Quartier Latin1857 Latin Quarter1869 left bank1871 quartier1896 1871 Magnet (London) 27 Mar. 2/2 General Cremer has accepted from the insurgents the command of the forts on the left bank. 1893 H. S. Edwards Old & New Paris I. iii. 10/1 On the ‘left bank’,..stand the Institute, the Pantheon, [etc.]. 1911 W. J. Locke Glory of Clementina Wing ix. 129 Paris of the Left Bank, of the studios, of struggle and toil. 1932 ‘F. Iles’ Before Fact ii. 42 Some unpretentious little restaurant on the left bank. 1949 Oxf. Junior Encycl. III. 335/1 The streets..on the left bank are noted for the numerous book-stalls. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 85/1 The intense form of Angst that one associates..with French intellectualism is not confined to the Left Bank. 2011 A. Kabatchnik Blood on Stage 432 Baldwin..departed for Paris, France, where he was soon embedded in the cultural radicalism of the Left Bank. B. adj. Characteristic or reminiscent of the Left Bank in Paris (see sense A. 2), esp. with reference to its intellectual and artistic life. Chiefly attributive. ΚΠ 1915 Puck 10 July 14/1 Her original creator..would have gasped to see his elusive fay transposed to the robust key of a Left Bank studio model. 1947 N. W. Ross Left Hand is Dreamer xvii. 265 They're a touch on the Greenwich Village side, aren't they?.. A little too Left Bank for my taste. 1964 Economist 2 May 478/1 Mr Gomulka strongly criticised their ‘left-bank’ attitudes. 1974 ‘S. Harvester’ Forgotten Road vi. 72 Their meal took on a sort of Chelsea or Greenwich Village or Left Bank atmosphere. 2009 M. C. Taylor Field Notes from Elsewhere ix. 68 His American detractors regarded Derrida as the quintessential Left Bank intellectual. Derivatives ˈˌLeft ˌˈBankish adj. = left bank adj. ΚΠ 1936 H. J. Kennedy Bride wore Red Pyjamas in Yearbk. Short Plays 3 343 That's frightfully interesting, Mr. Nobson-Cleeves; but isn't it a bit—er—ah—left-bankish? 1957 Princeton Alumni Weekly 8 Mar. 13/1 Otherwise respectable undergraduates looking a trifle Left Bankish in berets and turtleneck sweaters. 2000 M. Isserman Other Amer. vii. 203 Rue Arago was a little street full of Left Bankish charm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1600 |
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