| 单词 |
messagerie |
| 释义 |
‖ messagerie|mɛsaʒri|
[Fr.: see messagery.]
Usu. pl. The transportation or delivery of goods, messages, or people; a conveyance for these. Also attrib. So messageries maritimes, the transport of goods, etc., by sea; the name of a shipping-line.
1792A. Young Trav. France i. 11 In ten miles we met not one stage or diligence; only two messageries, and very few chaises. 1878Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. 29 June (1952) 150 We took our passage in the French Messageries boat. 1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island p. x, Many Englishmen like Frenchmen better than Englishmen, and never go on board a Peninsular and Oriental steamer when one of the ships of the Messageries Maritimes is available. 1931E. Waugh Remote People 12 French colonial officials, their wives and disorderly children..make up the bulk of a normal Messageries Maritimes passenger list. 1934A. Christie Murder on Orient Express ii. xiv. 169 He saw me on board a French Messagerie boat for Smyrna. 1974S. Coulter Chateau ii. vi. 286 She had come down by the Messageries coach. |
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