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Aga2|ˈɑːgə|
[Acronym, f. the initial letters of Sw. Svenska Aktienbolaget Gasackumulator, Swedish Gas Accumulator Company, the original manufacturers.]
A proprietary name for a type of large cooking stove or range (and water-heater), burning solid fuel and (later) gas or oil. Freq. attrib., esp. as Aga cooker, Aga stove.
1931Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 July 972 Aga... Bell's Heat Appliances Limited, 157 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.4, Manufacturers. 1937Ibid. 10 Mar. 272/1 Aga... Cooking stoves, water heating stoves, and steam-heated hot water supply apparatus for domestic use. Aga Heat Limited,..London, W.1; manufacturers. 1938L. MacNeice I crossed Minch vii. 98 Four Siamese cats, very large, sat on the Aga cooker. 1956M. Stewart Wildfire at Midnight xvi. 129 The cook was busy over the Aga. 1962J. Cannan All is Discovered i. 10 Her daughters returned to the..kitchen and resumed their occupation of leaning against the Aga stove and discussing their parents. 1962I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose vi. 57 The big brightly lit stone-flagged kitchen was silent except for..the perpetual purring of the Aga cooker. 1976W. Trevor Children of Dynmouth viii. 169 She said it in the kitchen,..looking round from the Aga where she was frying bacon. 1986A. Price For Good of State ii. ii. 46 A middle-aged solid fuel Aga stove. |