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'drome en · NOUN

Etymology

A shortening of aerodrome.

Meanings

  1. (informal) An aerodrome.
    • It had been located and used as a base and 'drome by the Mackay Aerial Expedition a few months previously[.] 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 11:
    • A Super Constellation warmed its engines up at Mascot 'drome. 1959, Dorothy Hewett, Bobbin Up, page 82:

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