| 释义 |
spreaˈdation rare.
[irreg. f. spread v. 8 b.]
= spread n. 7.
1810Splendid Follies III. 26 They returned to the Bear, where they found a spreadation of sandwiches, fruit, jelly and cyder. 1884J. Middlemass Poisoned Arrows III. xvii. 193 Have all that absurd spreadation taken away,..and a luncheon as like every day as possible, got ready at once. |