单词 | téléphérique |
释义 | téléphériquen. Chiefly in French contexts: a cableway; a cable car. Cf. teleferic n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle travelling on or by cable > [noun] > cableway or cable railway rope-way1665 aerial railway1839 rope railway1849 tramway1872 funicular railway1874 suspension-railway1875 cable-road1882 telpher line1884 cable-railroad1887 cable-railway1887 cable tramway1887 funiculaire1888 funicular1888 cable-way1899 aerial tramway1904 blondin1906 teleferic1916 mono-cable1922 téléphérique1922 Seilbahn1963 1922 Palo Alto (Emmetsburg, Iowa) Tribune 16 Aug. When the teleferique, or aerial railway now under construction, has been completed to the summit of Mt. Blanc,..passengers can reach the top in 90 minutes. 1956 I. Bromige Enchanted Garden iii. 150 We'll go up on the téléphérique after tea. 1977 New Yorker 26 Sept. 107/1 The Brévent, to be sure, could be reached in a few minutes by a system of téléphériques. 2011 Evening Standard (Nexis) 23 Feb. To start we take the telepherique from Chamonix up to Aiguille du Midi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922 |
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