单词 | traghetto |
释义 | traghetton. rare before 19th cent. In Venice: (originally) a place on the Grand Canal where gondolas may cross; (also) a jetty for gondolas. Now chiefly: a gondola used to ferry passengers across the Grand Canal. ΚΠ 1599 L. Lewkenor tr. G. Bardi in tr. G. Contarini Commonw. & Gouernment Venice 190 There are thirteen seuerall ferries or passages, which they call Traghetti. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. O5v There are in Venice thirteen ferries or passages, which they commonly call Traghetti, where passengers may be transported in a Gondola to what place of the City they will. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 77 And that men may pass speedily, besides this bridge, there be thirteene places called Traghetti, where boats attend called Gondole. 1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. 389 On the other side of this palace is the Traghetto called ‘Delia Madonnetta’. 1882 Cent. Mag. Nov. 14/2 They chatter at the traghetti, where they always have some sharp point under discussion. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 996/1 Ferries or traghetti for crossing the canals were..established as early as the 13th century. 1954 L. P. Hartley White Wand 15 No doubt Antonio was telling the story to his fellow-gondoliers at the traghetto, and it would lose nothing in the telling. 1982 F. Davies Death of Hit-man v. 70 They had been seated opposite him on the tragghetto crossing the Grand Canal. 2007 N. Mack Nights in Black Satin 95 She'd gotten to the bed-and-breakfast by a roundabout route that actually took her back across the Grand Canal, standing up in a traghetto, to the Dorsoduro. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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