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† transfreˈtation Obs.
[ad. late L. transfretātiōn-em, n. of action f. transfretāre: see next.]
The action of crossing or passing over a strait, channel, or narrow sea.
1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 69 Since the last transfretation of King Richard the Second. c1645Howell Lett. iv. xxiii, She had a rough passage in her transfretation to Dover Castle. 1768H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 90 Of this transfretation and Christening, Perkin, in his supposed confession, says not a word. 1782S. Pegge Cur. Misc. 60 Henry 2. levied numerous subsidies..for his transfretations (to use a Monkish word) into foreign parts. |
