Gondolas [noun]

At the resort, the socially distanced lines for the gondola were dangerously compressing.

There was even an idea for aerial transport system – or a gondola – that would cross the border from San Ysidro to Tijuana dating back to 1959, according to the Journal of San Diego History.

While you won’t be able to pile into a gondola with randos or share nachos at the lodge, you’ll still be able to make the most of this season.

In place of crowded après-ski bars and packed gondolas, you’ll see extra-long, spaced-apart lift lines, skiers in full-face coverings, and take-out lunches eaten outside.

That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.

A kind of summer palace illuminated by the rays of the rising Sun opened beneath our aerial gondola.

We came out at a gate which opened upon the lake, and there stood a gondola with two under jailers belonging to San Michele.

These, too, were shut and locked, and when I ducked under the nearest gondola I realized that I was trapped.

Further opposition was hopeless, so I returned disconsolate to my gondola, to await the issue.

Those who saw my gondola arrive with the livery of the ambassador, were lost in astonishment.