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Alaska|əˈlæskə|
The name of a State in the north-west of the United States, used attrib. to designate things connected with it in origin: as Alaska cedar, Alaska pine, trees indigenous to western N. America; Alaska sable, Alaska seal, used in the fur trade as spurious names for skunk and other pelts.
1884Sargent Rep. Forests 7 The most valuable species of the northern Coast Forest [is]..the Alaska cedar (Chamaecyparis [nootkatensis]). 1897Boston Even. Transcript 11 Sept. 24/3 Skunk skins are one of the biggest items in the fur market. They go under the attractive name of ‘Alaska sable’. 1897Sudworth Arborescent Flora 45 Tsuga mertensiana..Alaska Pine [of] Northwestern lumbermen. 1910Encycl. Brit. I. 475/1 The yellow or Alaska cedar, a very hard and durable wood of fine grain and pleasant odour. 1921A. C. Laut Fur Trade of America iv. 43 Skunk as skunk simply wouldn't sell; so skunk became ‘Alaska sable’. Ibid. iii. 33 Plucked otter is sold dyed for Alaska seal.
b. baked Alaska, a dessert consisting of a centre of sponge cake and ice cream with a light covering of rapidly cooked meringue.
1909Farmer Boston Cook Book 448 Baked Alaska... Make meringue of eggs and sugar.., cover a board with white paper, lay on sponge cake, turn ice cream on cake.., cover with meringue, and spread smoothly. Place on oven grate and brown quickly in hot oven. 1954Menu (M/S Stella Polaris) 13 Dec., Tenderloin Steak with Vegetables—Baked Alaska.
Add:[a.] Alaska Current, a surface ocean current that flows anticlockwise in the Gulf of Alaska.
1880S. Jackson Alaska & Missions N. Pacific Coast i. 54 The former stream flowing northward has been named ‘the *Alaska Current’, and gives the great southern coast of Alaska a winter climate as mild as that of one third of the United States. 1984A. C. & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans vii. 226 The Alaska Current, fed by water from the North Pacific Current and moving in a counterclockwise gyre in the Gulf of Alaska. |