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Osborne|ˈɒzbɔən|
The name of a former royal residence on the Isle of Wight used attrib. and absol. to designate a type of sweetish plain biscuit.
Said by the manufacturers (private communication 14 March 1977) to have been first made in 1860. It was originally intended to name them after Queen Victoria, but she asked that the biscuit should be named after her favourite home—Osborne—on the Isle of Wight.
1876Official Guide Cunard Steamship Co. 158 (Advt.), Huntley & Palmers..List of Biscuits..Osborne Biscuits. 1888Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. ii. 31/2 Biscuits..Osborne..1s. 6d. per tin. 1911A. Bennett Hilda Lessways vi. vi. 402, I should like another biscuit. But I don't want the Osbornes—the others. 1926W. de la Mare Connoisseur 49 My stranger in the tea shop had been refreshing himself with Osborne biscuits. 1938S. Beckett Murphy v. 96 The biscuits..were the same as always, a Ginger, an Osborne, a Digestive, a Petit Beurre. 1960R. Collier House called Memory ii. 28 My mother's first memory..was of sitting on the steps..and being given some Osborne biscuits. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play x. 77 The gibbon..grabbed three Osborne biscuits from a tin on the low, marble table. |