| 单词 | procaccio |
| 释义 | ‖ procaccio Obs.|proˈkattʃo| Also 8 -cia, procace. [It. procaccio, prop. purveying, provision, procuring, diligence: hence obs. F. procace ‘the Post, or Carrier that goeth weekely betweene Rome and Naples’ (Cotgr.).] A regular provision for the conveyance of passengers or goods in Italy; a transit agency.
1645Evelyn Diary 29 Jan., The hast of our Procaccio did not suffer us to dwell so long on these objects,..as we desired. a1743Ozell tr. Brantome's Spanish Rhodomont. (1744) 167, I was going, one Day, to Naples with the Procace. 1787Beckford Lett. Italy (1805) I. xlii. 411 A procaccia sets out every day at twelve o'clock. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. iii. i. (1848) 200 The procaccio and its convoy; a kind of caravan..for the transportation of merchandize, with an escort of soldiery to protect it from the robbers. |
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