单词 | little venice |
释义 | > as lemmasLittle Venice Little Venice n. (a name given to) a place, usually a local area of a larger whole, considered to resemble Venice in Italy, for example in canal scenery.esp. in the United Kingdom (the name of) an area of Maida Vale in London bordering on the junction of the Regent's and Grand Union Canals. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > part reminiscent of other place Little Venice1598 Little Italy1762 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies ii. 223/2 The Cape of Vela by Venezuela, or little Venice. 1745 J. Swinton Trav. Three Eng. Gent. v, in Harleian Misc. V. 331/1 In the Moldau there are two little Islands,..called by the People of Prague..Great and Little Venice. 1760 Crit. Rev. Nov. 344 There are sometimes three or four hundred of them [sc. ants] together in one place, forming a town, which might properly enough be called a little Venice. 1818 tr. J. von Müller Univ. Hist. I. i. vi. 70 A little Venice grew on the cluster called the hundred islands. 1833 W. C. Bryant Prairies in Knickerbocker Mag. Dec. 412 The beaver builds No longer by these streams, but far away..among Missouri's springs And pools..He rears his little Venice. 1890 G. D. Litchfield Little Venice 1 (heading) Little Venice, a story of the St. Clair Flats. 1934 M. Allingham Death of Ghost i. 2 Little Venice [on the Regent's Canal, London] in 1930... The room..took up the entire first floor of the old house on the canal. 1968 Guardian 12 July 20/6 The justices granted a provisional restaurant licence for two barges to be moored..near the lock of the Rochdale Canal... It was hoped this section of the canal..would become a Little Venice patronised by yachtsmen. 2008 Outlook Profit 28 Nov. 65/2 What I liked best at Mykenos is Little Venice, which has bars lining the sea front. < as lemmas |
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