α. 1600s throughfared.
β. 1800s– thoroughfared.
单词 | thoroughfared |
释义 | thoroughfaredadj.α. 1600s throughfared. β. 1800s– thoroughfared. Originally: †having a passage, perforated (obsolete). Later: (with modifying word) having thoroughfares of the kind indicated. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > bored, pierced, or perforated thirledc1200 perforate?a1425 bored1553 wimbled1582 through-bored1597 perforated1598 foraminated1599 punched1653 thoroughfared1662 prepunched1940 1662 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anatomy ii. vii. 111/2 When the Ventricles are dilated above the through-far'd Septum [L. septum pervium]..the little holes would be shut up. 1865 Builder 25 Nov. 827/1 Dundee is an irregular, closely-built, and sinuous thoroughfared Scottish town. 1907 Idaho Daily Statesman 15 Aug. in J. A. Lukas Big Trouble (1998) 685 There may somewhere in this teeming land of ours be a cleaner, better built, better thoroughfared, prettier, more progressive and more substantial city than this. 1945 D. W. Abbott 55th SeaBees, 1942–1945 Wide thoroughfared cities seemingly hewn from sunbaked earth and stone. 2005 A. Chapman England's Leonardo vii. 125 Brick-built, tiled, broad-thoroughfared Dutch cities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1662 |
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