| 释义 |
Genevese, a. and n.|dʒɛnɪˈviːz|
[f. Genev-a2 + -ese.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Geneva; spec. designating a type of sauce for fish.
1826E. Craven Mem. Margravine of Anspach II. ii. 44 His house was built by a Genevese architect named Billion. 1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery Index, p. xv/1 Genevese Sauce, or Sauce Genevoise. 1857C. Brontë Professor xix. 67, I have one object before me now—to get that Genevese girl for my wife. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 79 The stern Genevese disciplinarian. 1875Lowell Wordsworth Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 409 The Genevese humorist, Toepffer.
B. n. A native of Geneva. (Not now inflected in pl.)
1650Stapylton tr. Strada ii. vi. 26 In their passage over the Mountaines; on the one side by the French, on the other by the Geneveses and Swisse, they might easily be distressed and cut off. 1794G. Washington Lett. Writ. 1891 XII. 489 The picture drawn in them, of the Genevese, is really interesting and affecting. 1818M. W. Shelley Frankenst. i. (1865) 31 I am by birth a Genevese. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 260 A neat Protestant church, erected by..the Genevese. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. xxxv. 99 They sent to him Dunant, a Genevese, as a British emissary. 1881A. Gray Lett. (1893) 719 All these Genevese speak English well, except Madame De Candolle. |