单词 | portantina |
释义 | portantinan. Now rare. In Italian contexts: a sedan chair (see also quot. 1793). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter litterc1330 saumbury1393 cabin1587 palanquin1588 norimon1616 dooliec1625 sedan1646 pavilion1656 takhtrawan1671 go-cart1676 palki1678 portantina1758 muncheel1807 machila1833 kago1857 dandy1870 1758 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1967) III. 149 He hopes you took nothing ill, tho' you refused the Portantina. 1793 Lady Palmerston in B. Connell Portrait Golden Age (1958) ix. 288 Miss Carter in one portantine (which is a sedan chair with a horse before and another behind, playing the part of chairmen). 1857 O. W. Le Vert Souvenirs of Trav. II. l. 175 I have ascended Vesuvius..on my own feet, instead of being carried up in a portantina..as women usually are. 1873 Times 7 Apr. 7/6 The Empress, who has not the appearance of an invalid, may be seen daily on..the byways of Sorrento in a carriage or portantina... A number of facchini, dressed in the Russian livery, are at hand to carry the portantina. 1937 Tablet 11 Dec. 800/1 Carried in the portantina—the Sedan chair which he now invariably uses in the palace—the Pope passed through the Salone Sistino into the Sacred Museum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1758 |
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