单词 | champagne bottle |
释义 | champagne bottlen. A thick glass bottle with a long neck and sloping shoulders and secured with a cork, used for champagne. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle > for liquor bombard1598 ingestar1611 flask1693 champagne bottle1772 magnum bonum1785 magnum1788 jeroboam1816 rehoboam1841 imperial1858 hock-bottle1892 Nebuchadnezzar1913 nip bottle1915 Balthazar1935 Methuselah1935 Salmanazar1935 miniature1939 1772 Daily Advertiser 15 Sept. (advt.) To be sold by auction... A large Parcel of moulded Quart Bottles, Ditto Points, Champagne Bottles, and common ditto [etc.]. 1872 A. Trollope Golden Lion xx. 341 She would pack up cold chickens and champagne bottles. 1972 T. Stoppard Jumpers i. 23 Crouch enters from the Kitchen, carrying a bin of rubbish and several empty champagne bottles. 2008 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) (Nexis) 29 Sept. a7 As the tree hit the roof, the window popped out like a cork from a champagne bottle. Compounds As a modifier with the sense ‘reminiscent of the shape of a champagne bottle, sloping’. ΚΠ 1833 Court Mag. & Belle Assemblée June 293/2 Look at that man with the spindle-shanks opposite, that other with the bald head and champagne-bottle shoulders. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 2 May 3/2 I don't mean that champagne-bottle shoulders are in vogue again, but that the shoulder line is not at all square. 2007 D. S. Smith Field Guide Bedside Diagnosis (ed. 2) xcii. 225 This [sc. Charcot-Marie-Tooth] is a familial neuropathy characterized by sensory loss, ‘champagne-bottle’ legs, wide-spread areflexia, and pes cavus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1772 |
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