quai

[keɪ]

近义词
反义词
  • 码头
  • n. (Quai)人名;(意)夸伊

英文词源


quai (n.)
1870, "public path beside a waterway," from French quai (12c., see quay). Often short for Quai d'Orsay, the street on the south bank of the Seine in Paris, since mid-19c. site of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and hence sometimes used metonymically for it (1922).