单词 | vetturino |
释义 | vetturinon. Now chiefly historical. 1. In Italy: (a) a person who hires out carriages or horses, originally one who also makes other travel arrangements and acts as a guide; (b) a driver of a vettura. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun] > hirer out > of horses or carriages hackney man1307 hackman1571 vittorin1613 vetturino1617 coach-master1721 jobman1794 jobmaster1802 jobber1809 jobbing master1835 fly-proprietor1845 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of specific type of carriage vetturino1789 volantier1791 phaetoneer1795 dragsman1812 carriage man1857 bandymana1881 tonga wallah1942 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 99 We agreed with a Vetturine or letter of horses, that each of us paying him fiftie five Poli, hee should finde us horses, and horsemeate, and our owne diet to Rome. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 258 Others take with them a Vetturino, that lets them haue horses, and dyets them to. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 301 I made a little excursion into the Milanese, in which I found that the best way of performing it is with the Vetturini. 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 18 Oct. in Trav. France (1792) i. 209 I agreed with a vetturino, to take me this morning at six o'clock, to Brescia. 1825 T. Pennington Journey into Var. Parts of Europe II. xxvii. 291 (note) These vetturinos impair the comfort of travelling in Italy. They are vulgar, insolent, and selfish. 1883 W. H. Russell in 19th Cent. Sept. 483 Asserting my right of way notwithstanding the fierce opposition of many of the local vetturini, I toiled up the steep ascent for the hotel. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xi. 104 I must drive back to Genzano. I told the vetturino to wait. 1971 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 7 Feb. 31/6 The mayor of Rome is reported to have said that carriages could come back... ‘But a lot of grass can grow before that happens,’ a vetturino added. 2005 D. Dunn in D. Bell & J. Hollows Ordinary Lifestyles ix. 138 Throughout the holiday Vicky and Craig are accompanied by Amerasekera who adopts the role..of a latter day vetturino, part guide, part fixer, and even part matchmaker. 2. A four-wheeled carriage, esp. one for hire; = vettura n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > strong, for travelling > foreign types vettura1749 vetturino1821 tarantass1850 1821 A. Vieusseux Italy & Italians 19th Cent. iv. 105 I left Milan by the usual conveyance of a vetturino, to proceed to Switzerland over the Simplon. a1859 Lady Morgan Memoirs (1862) I. iii. 16 A lumbering post-coach, the Irish vetturino, the ‘leathern convenience’ of that time (like those of Italy of the present day). 1907 G. M. Fenn G. A. Henty v. 40 Now he was at sea,..now making journeys by Vetturinos across the mountains. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Feb. 98/1 In 1843 the coach from Florence to Rome, by Arezzo and Perugia, took forty-eight hours... A vetturino took five days in summer, six in winter. 1974 Times 20 July 7/1 Paolo's theatrical bargaining secured a Vetturino for Padua, to leave at about midday on Tuesday, ‘a comfortable carriage & two mules’. 2007 R. S. Kennedy & D. S. Hair Dramatic Imagination Robert Browning xxiii. 243 The trip to Rome took seven days by vetturino, with Peni frequently on top of the coupé with Ferdinando, pretending to be coachman. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective, as vetturino driver, vetturino travelling, etc. ΚΠ 1818 P. B. Shelley Let. 23 Aug. (1964) II. 479 From Florence to Este is three days' vetturino journey. 1821 Lady Morgan Italy II. xviii. 298 Our vetturino-driver following us in, observed that the mules which carried strangers to the waterfalls were a monopoly of government. 1838 Murray's Hand-bk. N. Germ. 193 In vetturino travelling, he must expect to start at break of day, in all weathers. 1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn lxx A miserable-looking vetturino carriage stood at the inn door. 1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 718/2 Vetturino travelling inserted the wayfarer willy-nilly deep into the life of the country he was traversing. C2. ΚΠ 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude vi. 82 It was necessary to stay some time (for we travelled vetturino-fashion) at the little post-house. 1900 Catholic World Sept. 772 He travelled in the pleasant, lazy, vetturino-fashion, under ‘Ausonia's blue and sunny sky’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1617 |
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