| 单词 |
stationnaire |
| 释义 |
stationnaire Obs. exc. Hist.|steɪʃəˈnɛə(r)| [Fr.] A naval guard-ship, stationed at a foreign port for the use of an ambassador.
1895F.O. 64/1351 (Public Record Office) No. 284 He feared the arrival of the second stationnaires would inevitably excite ill-feeling amongst the Mahomedans. 1914R. Rankin Inner Hist. Balkan War xii. 364 As yet no warships were at hand except the weakly-armed ‘stationnaires’ or European guard-ships which at all times lie in the Bosphorus for the use of the Ambassadors. 1922Glasgow Herald 21 Dec. 9/3 As regards the Foreign Embassy stationnaires, Lord Curzon said that he had never thought they could be detrimental to Turkey's sovreignty. 1958M. Buchanan Ambassador's Daughter vi. 68 Ambassadors accredited to the Sublime Porte before the Turkish Revolution..were given a summer residence on the shores of the Bosphorus,..with an armed sloop or stationnaire always anchored in the vicinity in case of a rising of the Turks. |

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