单词 | bourgade |
释义 | bourgaden. An unwalled town consisting of scattered buildings; (also) a village.After the 17th cent. used almost exclusively with reference to France or French-speaking regions. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] thorpc725 homeeOE byc950 castlec1000 wickc1000 streeta1325 placec1390 plecka1576 bourgade1601 township1602 townreda1613 ville1837 vicus1842 ham1864 stad1896 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxvi. 135 Dispersed into pettie villages and burgades [Fr. en petits villages]. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 196 A proper little towne..which of two Burgards..is growne as it were, into one Burgh. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 148 He set upon the Town; being but an open burgade. 1726 J. Breval Remarks Several Parts Europe I. 170 This [part of Lorraine] contains no considerable Town, but only Villages and Bourgades. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 308 The canton [of Uri] consists only of villages, and little towns or bourgades. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 325 A large populous bourgade..which had grown up under the protection of the Abbey. 1864 W. F. Coffin 1812 xxiii. 239 The remnants of a British regiment were marched..through the bourgades of the West. 1893 L. Villari Here & There in Italy 236 Again the mountains fall apart, and in a wide basin of corn-land and pasture lies the bourgade of La Thuile. 1976 E. Weber Peasants into Frenchmen 160 Imitation of bourgeois building styles..and of railway architecture,..altered the looks of many a bourgade, then of the countryside as well. 1997 A. Goldhammer tr. E. Le R. Ladurie Beggar & Professor (1998) 175 The bourgade stood at the foot of a steep cliff topped by a pair of chapels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1601 |
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