单词 | chocolate dessert |
释义 | > as lemmaschocolate dessert (a) attributive, with the sense ‘made of chocolate’ or ‘flavoured, coated, etc., with chocolate’, as chocolate dessert, chocolate icing, chocolate sculpture, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. See also as useful (also successful, etc.) as a chocolate teapot (also fireplace, etc.) at Phrases. ΚΠ 1714 M. Kettilby Coll. above 300 Receipts 94 Lemon or Chocolate-Puffs. Take half a pound of Double-refin'd Sugar [etc.]. 1734 J. Middleton & H. Howard 500 New Receipts 24 (heading) A good chocolate tart. 1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 550 Turn it over upon the bottom of a large dish, and mask it all over with a chocolate iceing. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vii. 151 Mrs. Armytage took from her pocket a little jewelled bonbonnière, took out a chocolate praline, and began daintily nibbling it. 1906 Table Talk July 261/1 Olives, candies, and other side dishes were disposed in perfect nests made of chocolate, a chocolate bird perched on the side. 1950 J. Hersey in H. Brickell O. Henry Prize Stories of 1951 (1951) 137 It was my fleshiness, my unbeatable appetite for chocolate things. 1983 L. Zisman & H. Zisman 47 Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in World 20 The biggest chocolate sculpture ever made was a 4, 484-pound, 10-foot-high Easter egg. 1997 J. Steingarten Man who ate Everything (1998) iii. 173 The problem is that the fat in chocolate desserts is mostly saturated. 2013 A. McKinty I hear Sirens in Street 51 Matty..finished the entire plate of chocolate digestives. < as lemmas |
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