| 释义 |
‖ conciˈergerie, -ery
In 7 consergerie, -ery.
[F. conciergerie, f. prec.: see -ery.]
1. Applied in French to the office of a concierge (in sense 1), the residence or lodge of a concierge, and used as name of a prison belonging to the Palace of Justice in Paris; in some of which senses it is occasional in Eng. as an alien word.
1610Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 110 He [Ravaillac] was brought out of the consergery, being the prison for the palace. 1628tr. Mathieu's Powerfvll Fav. 138 The Conciergery [transl. 1632 gaole], the Court where they pleaded, the Treasury..were built neere together. 1852Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1465/2 Amblyopia in connection with presbyopia so common in the Conciergeries of Paris.
†2. Name of the Scotch Merchants' House at Campvere in Zeeland. Obs.
1613Injunctions Comm. of Burghs in Northern N. & Q. I. 73 Neill Kae, Maister of the Consergerie hous of Campheir. Ibid. 74 The said Master of the Consergerie sall intertinne the merchants of the best sort of the nation. |
