'drome

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See also: drome, Drôme, and -drome

English

Etymology

A shortening of aerodrome.

Noun

'drome (plural 'dromes)

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

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