| 单词 | place d'armes |
| 释义 | ‖ place d'armes|plas darm|
Also † place des armes.
[Fr.]
An assembly point for troops, weapons, or ammunition; a parade-ground.
1708Marlborough Let. 26 July in W. S. Churchill Marlborough (1936) III. xxiii. 454 He thinks it unpracticable till we have Lille for a place d'armes and magazine. 1767‘Coriat Junior’ Journey through Netherlands I. xviii. 159 The Saint Sebastian upon the parade, or place des armes, is one of the genteelest inns I ever saw. 1803in Amer. State Papers: Misc. (1834) I. 348 There is in the middle of the front of the city a place d'armes, facing which the church and town-house are built. 1833Edin. Rev. LVII. 326 A place d'armes where a certain proportion of troops would always be in readiness in a fine climate. 1845R. Ford Hand-bk. for Travellers Spain I. iii. 365 The invaders next proceeded to convert it into a place d'armes. 1883H. James Little Tour in France (1885) xvi. 110 La Rochelle..contains, moreover, a great wide place d'armes, which looked for all the world like the piazza of some dead Italian town. 1939A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 280 The massive fortifications of her original Levantine places d'armes..speak..of the..tenacity with which..the Venetian Commonwealth clung to every disputed foothold. 1949I. Deutscher Stalin i. 10 In Russian eyes the Caucasus was a place d'armes against the Ottoman Empire. 1955Times 12 May 8/1 Western Germany is being turned into a place d'armes for the deployment of large aggressive forces. 1976N. Roberts Face of France 5 The square [of Phalsburg]..was conceived..as the place d'armes, the parade ground of a garrison town. |
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