单词 | maremma |
释义 | maremman. 1. a. In Italy: low, marshy, unhealthy land near a seashore; an area of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > salt-marsh salt marshc1000 salinec1450 salt1621 salina1697 salt-pan1785 maremma1819 shott1878 pré salé1903 1819 E. Rigby tr. J. F. L. de Chateauvieux Italy xvii. 227 At a little distance beyond that city, we already enter a maremme [Fr. maremme], that is to say, a country of pestilential air. 1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics vii. 170 Telamone, a port in the maremma of Sienna. 1866 J. Ruskin Ethics of Dust 227 The steady increase of deadly maremma round Pisa and Venice. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 148 The rich sylva and flora which the central part of the Maremma possesses. 1913 R. Fry Let. 31 May (1972) II. 368 The flats of the Maremma. 1989 Holiday Which? Jan. 28/1 To the west, the plains of the Maremma were drained, by the Etruscans, but reverted to malarial marshland until the last century. ΚΠ 1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Maremme, or Maremma... The word is also sometimes used to signify the mal'aria, or unhealthy vapours, exhaled from the soil. 2. In full maremma sheepdog. An Italian breed of sheepdog with a long, thick, white coat; a dog of this breed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun] > other types of Old English sheepdog1890 Belgian sheepdog1901 Belgian Shepherd1901 briard1901 Calabrian1905 Groenendael1925 maremma1925 bouvier1934 Illyrian sheepdog1935 puli1936 Malinois1947 Tervueren1947 Owczarek1948 Old English1971 Aussie1972 1925 R. Hall Saturday Life xvi. 172 Ten dogs of various breeds and sizes, from a large Maremma sheep-dog to a Yorkshire terrier, circled around them barking. 1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 102 Maremma Sheepdog. 1948 C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Brit. iii. xviii. 202 Common in central Italy from Tuscany to the Abruzzes, the Maremma Sheepdog is also called the Cani da Pastor Maremmani, Abruzzi Sheepdog and Maremmes Sheepdog. The breed is centuries old and has been bred pure by Tuscan farmers for herding sheep and cattle; lately the race has been in more general use, particularly as a guard dog. 1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 76 Still used as a working sheepdog in Italy, the Maremma has retained great hardiness. 1993 Times 17 Aug. 7/4 He believes that the desirable qualities were bred into the mountain dog and similar breeds, including the Italian maremma, by a process called neoteny. Derivatives maˈremman adj. rare of or belonging to a maremma. ΚΠ 1924 A. Huxley Little Mexican 283 The old gentleman..taking his big maremman dog for a walk [in Tuscany]. maremˈmatic adj. [compare French maremmatique (1855)] rare = maremmese adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1905 N.E.D. at Maremma Maremmatic. maremˈmese adj. rare of or relating to a maremma.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Maremmese. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1819 |
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