place d'armesn.

Brit.

/ˌplas ˈdɑːm(z)/, U.S.

/ˌplæs ˈdɑrm(z)/

Inflections: Plural places d'armes.

Forms: 1700s place des armes, 1700s– place d'armes.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French place d'armes, place des armes.

Etymology: < French place d'armes (also as place des armes, both second half of the 17th cent.) < place place n.¹ + de de prep. + armes weapons (see arms n.). Compare Spanish plaza de armas (second half of the 16th cent. or earlier), Italian piazza d'armi (1604 as †piazza d'arme ). Compare earlier place of arms n. at place n.¹ Phrases 3b.

An assembly point for weapons or ammunition, an arsenal; an assembly point for troops, a parade ground. Also in extended use.See also place of arms n. at place n.¹ Phrases 3b.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > parade > parade-ground

parade1704

place d'armes1708

parade ground1724

square1915

parade square1945

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > place for assembling troops

place of arms1588

rendezvous?1591

rendy1605

place d'armes1833

1708 Duke of Marlborough Let. 26 July in W. S. Churchill Marlborough (1936) III. xxiii. 454 He thinks it unpracticable till we have Lille for a place d'armes and magazine.

1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. xviii. 159 The Saint Sebastian upon the parade, or place des armes, is one of the genteelest inns I ever saw.

1803 in Amer. State Papers: Misc. (1834) I. 348 There is in the middle of the front of the city a place d'armes, facing which the church and town-house are built.

1833 Edinb. Rev. 57 326 A place d'armes where a certain proportion of troops would always be in readiness in a fine climate.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. iii. 365 The invaders next proceeded to convert it into a place d'armes.

1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 319/2 La Rochelle..contains, moreover, a great wide place d'armes, which looked for all the world like the piazza of some dead Italian town.

1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 280 The massive fortifications of her original Levantine places d'armes..speak..of the..tenacity with which..the Venetian Commonwealth clung to every disputed foothold.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin i. 10 In Russian eyes the Caucasus was a place d'armes against the Ottoman Empire.

1976 N. Roberts Face of France 5 The square [of Phalsburg]..was conceived..as the place d'armes, the parade ground of a garrison town.

2004 National Rev. (Nexis) 29 June It might nevertheless have been feared that Kuwait, for reasons of timorous self-protection, would shy from providing a Western coalition with a place d'armes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	place darmes
释义	place d'armesn. Brit. /ˌplas ˈdɑːm(z)/, U.S. /ˌplæs ˈdɑrm(z)/ Inflections: Plural places d'armes. Forms: 1700s place des armes, 1700s– place d'armes. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French place d'armes, place des armes. Etymology: < French place d'armes (also as place des armes, both second half of the 17th cent.) < place place n.¹ + de de prep. + armes weapons (see arms n.). Compare Spanish plaza de armas (second half of the 16th cent. or earlier), Italian piazza d'armi (1604 as †piazza d'arme ). Compare earlier place of arms n. at place n.¹ Phrases 3b. An assembly point for weapons or ammunition, an arsenal; an assembly point for troops, a parade ground. Also in extended use.See also place of arms n. at place n.¹ Phrases 3b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > parade > parade-ground parade1704 place d'armes1708 parade ground1724 square1915 parade square1945 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > place for assembling troops place of arms1588 rendezvous?1591 rendy1605 place d'armes1833 1708 Duke of Marlborough Let. 26 July in W. S. Churchill Marlborough (1936) III. xxiii. 454 He thinks it unpracticable till we have Lille for a place d'armes and magazine. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. xviii. 159 The Saint Sebastian upon the parade, or place des armes, is one of the genteelest inns I ever saw. 1803 in Amer. State Papers: Misc. (1834) I. 348 There is in the middle of the front of the city a place d'armes, facing which the church and town-house are built. 1833 Edinb. Rev. 57 326 A place d'armes where a certain proportion of troops would always be in readiness in a fine climate. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. iii. 365 The invaders next proceeded to convert it into a place d'armes. 1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 319/2 La Rochelle..contains, moreover, a great wide place d'armes, which looked for all the world like the piazza of some dead Italian town. 1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 280 The massive fortifications of her original Levantine places d'armes..speak..of the..tenacity with which..the Venetian Commonwealth clung to every disputed foothold. 1949 I. Deutscher Stalin i. 10 In Russian eyes the Caucasus was a place d'armes against the Ottoman Empire. 1976 N. Roberts Face of France 5 The square [of Phalsburg]..was conceived..as the place d'armes, the parade ground of a garrison town. 2004 National Rev. (Nexis) 29 June It might nevertheless have been feared that Kuwait, for reasons of timorous self-protection, would shy from providing a Western coalition with a place d'armes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1708
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