| 释义 |
‖ noyau|nwajo|
Also noyeau.
[F., repr. earlier noyal, noial, nuial, etc.:—pop. L. *nucale, f. L. nuc-, nux nut.]
1. a. A liqueur made of brandy flavoured with the kernels of certain fruits.
1787W. Dyott Diary (1907) I. 38 We dined at half⁓past three and drank pretty freely till eight, when we had coffee, and after noyau, etc. 1797Canning Rovers ii. ii, This cherry-bounce, this loved noyau, My drink for ever be. 1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris 161 Your Noyeaus, Curaçoes, and the devil knows what. 1842J. W. Orderson Creoleana xx. 245 You will..venture to sip the noyeau. 1882Cornh. Mag. Jan. 86 A glass of noyau and still more cakes.
b. A type of sweetmeat related to nougat.
1913C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. vii. 103 Richer boys emerged from the tuckshop, sucking gelatines and satin pralines and chocolate creams and raspberry noyau. 1963― My Life & Times II. 135 A small boy tried to make up his mind whether he would invest a penny in a bar of raspberry, or greengage, or apricot noyau... Noyau was a second-best to nougat.
2. transf. A nucleus (of people).
1965Listener 27 May 792/1 They picked out, from the far from ‘little’ noyau of young, hopeful writers who had gathered around them, any Lucien de Rubempré..who came their way. 1966R. Ardrey Territorial Imperative (1967) v. 167, I have taken from the French ethologist Jean-Jacques Petter the term ‘noyau’ as a label for the society of inward antagonism... It has seemed wise..to get..away..from all those English words like ‘community’ or ‘society’ which inevitably bear connotations of co-operation. Noyau—meaning, roughly, a nucleus—is correct in that it implies a primitive evolutionary step towards societies characterized by mutual aid. |