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单词 cheese trencher
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cheese trencher
cheese trencher n. Obsolete a plate or platter used for cheese, typically having a proverb or adage inscribed on the rim.
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1566 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) II. 245 j dozen of chese trenchers, vj d.
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore sig. H4v As one of our Cheese-trenchers sayes very learnedly: As out of Wormwood Bees suck Hony, As from poore clients Lawyers firke mony.
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse Prol. 94 in Wks. II Doe not..force vs act, Incompasse of a cheese-trencher.
1874 J. Sharman Prov. of J. Heywood Introd. p.l One of the buffo-characters begins to quote learnedly from a cheese-trencher.
1903 Good Housek. Nov. 451/1 The cheese trencher was surely two hundred years old, for I saw its fac simile in London in the home of a collector of rare antiquities.
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