pradon.

Brit.

/ˈprɑːdəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈprɑˌdoʊ/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Prado.

Etymology: < Spanish Prado (1619 or earlier in this sense), the proper name of the public park of Madrid, specific use of prado meadow, field (10th cent. or earlier; compare post-classical Latin pradum (824 in a Spanish source)), park (1737 or earlier) < classical Latin prātum meadow (see pratal adj.).Compare isolated borrowing of French †Prade denoting the public park of Madrid (1633 or earlier in the passage translated; < Spanish):1657 J. Davies tr. V. de Voiture Lett. i. xxx. 58 I have not passed a fair evening in the Prade [Fr. Prade], but I have wished him there.

A public park or other open space as a fashionable place to meet or walk. Originally (with capital initial) as the name of such a park in Madrid.

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1623 J. Digby True Relation 5 And so he went abroad the next day, at the houre appointed,..and to the Prado being the certaine place agreed vpon betweene them.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xv. 72 [He] went to the Prado, a place hard by of purpose to take the aire.

1664 T. Killgrew Thomaso i. i, in Comedies & Trag. i. 314 Hers are the Colours they all wear in the Prado.

1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 163 If a Lady be new-married, and longs to shew her Equipage, no Place so proper as the Prado.

1770 I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse i. i. 37 Yesterday evening I went to the Prado—Don Ferdinand stayed behind.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. I. vii. 80 St. James's Park, the Prado of London.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xi. 100 We have driven in the Prado—that superb avenue bordered with patrician mansions and noble shade-trees.

1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. ix. 105 Charles kept him for three weeks in his oleander-buried house in the Prado, until his little brig..sailed.

1979 Newsweek (Nexis) 15 Oct. 38 Halfway along the street, in the prado that holds a statue of Paul Revere, the eleven religious societies of the neighborhood had erected a platform for the statues of their patron saints.

2003 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 28 Jan. d3 A Jack Daniels RV pulled up and out came the Playboy bunnies..surely establishing a new standard for incongruity in the stately environs of Balboa Park's prado.

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

单词	prado
释义	pradon. Brit. /ˈprɑːdəʊ/, U.S. /ˈprɑˌdoʊ/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Prado. Etymology: < Spanish Prado (1619 or earlier in this sense), the proper name of the public park of Madrid, specific use of prado meadow, field (10th cent. or earlier; compare post-classical Latin pradum (824 in a Spanish source)), park (1737 or earlier) < classical Latin prātum meadow (see pratal adj.).Compare isolated borrowing of French †Prade denoting the public park of Madrid (1633 or earlier in the passage translated; < Spanish):1657 J. Davies tr. V. de Voiture Lett. i. xxx. 58 I have not passed a fair evening in the Prade [Fr. Prade], but I have wished him there. A public park or other open space as a fashionable place to meet or walk. Originally (with capital initial) as the name of such a park in Madrid. ΚΠ 1623 J. Digby True Relation 5 And so he went abroad the next day, at the houre appointed,..and to the Prado being the certaine place agreed vpon betweene them. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xv. 72 [He] went to the Prado, a place hard by of purpose to take the aire. 1664 T. Killgrew Thomaso i. i, in Comedies & Trag. i. 314 Hers are the Colours they all wear in the Prado. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 163 If a Lady be new-married, and longs to shew her Equipage, no Place so proper as the Prado. 1770 I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse i. i. 37 Yesterday evening I went to the Prado—Don Ferdinand stayed behind. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. I. vii. 80 St. James's Park, the Prado of London. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xi. 100 We have driven in the Prado—that superb avenue bordered with patrician mansions and noble shade-trees. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. ix. 105 Charles kept him for three weeks in his oleander-buried house in the Prado, until his little brig..sailed. 1979 Newsweek (Nexis) 15 Oct. 38 Halfway along the street, in the prado that holds a statue of Paul Revere, the eleven religious societies of the neighborhood had erected a platform for the statues of their patron saints. 2003 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 28 Jan. d3 A Jack Daniels RV pulled up and out came the Playboy bunnies..surely establishing a new standard for incongruity in the stately environs of Balboa Park's prado. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623
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