单词 | procaccio |
释义 | procaccion. Now historical. In Italy: a person or agency providing a regular service for the conveyance of passengers or goods; = carrier n.1 1a; (also) a carrier's vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > conveyor of goods by vehicle carriera1395 common carrier1465 loader1476 conductora1533 procaccio1648 shipper1840 transport-rider1850 freighter1872 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. ii. ii. 104 And the Pope in this place giues sixty Horsemen Musqueters to accompany the Carrier, vulgarly called Il Procaccia, and to defend him from the spoyling of banished men, vulgarly called Banditi.] 1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 174 Wee went with the Procaccio..passing to Viterbo by the Strada Nuova. a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 323 The hast of our Procaccio suffer'd us not to dwell so long on these objects,..as we desired. 1709 C. Gildon New Metamorph. (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 130 Having that day provided Horses (for I wou'd not venture with the Procaccio, or a Vetturino) for the next Morning. 1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades 167 I was going, one Day, to Naples with the Procace. 1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 77 Here we took leave of the Procaccio leaving our Trunks & Baggage in his Custody to bring after us. 1805 P. Beckford Familiar Lett. Italy I. xlii. 411 A procaccia sets out every day at twelve o'clock. 1837 C. MacFarlane Banditti & Robbers 99 Their favourite prize continued to be the procaccio, a kind of waggon, which travels night and day to the capital. 1918 Eng. Hist. Rev. 33 192 He sets out from Rome in company with the procaccio and some sixty other horsemen. 1993 C. Bresnahan Menning Charity & State in Late Renaiss. Italy v. 152 The heirs of Croce d'Antonio, former procaccio in Venice, might have belonged to a family of functionaries about whom really nothing of importance is known. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648 |
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