| 单词 | company china |
| 释义 | > as lemmascompany china (a) Designating an object, room, etc., reserved for social occasions, receiving or entertaining guests, etc., and typically of superior quality, as company china, company dress, company room, etc. Cf. senses 4a, 6d(a). Now chiefly U.S.Cf. also best adj. 1b. ΚΠ 1779 F. Burney Let. ?23 Feb. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 248 Our Laughs reaching to the Company Room, we were followed by a Mr. Davis. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxii. 193 Mr. Puffington quite eclipsed all the old country families with their ‘company rooms’ and put-away furniture. 1866 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 336 Ten cups of company-china. 1870 E. J. Worboise Grey & Gold xxxviii. 321 A handsome black silk she had lying by her... It must be my company-dress for many and many a day. 1904 E. Glasgow Deliverance i. x. 114 We went over to Meadow Hall before ten in the morning, and found old Mrs. Dudley just putting on her company cap. 1998 M. Noxon Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Script Bk. (2003) 3rd Season I. 70 Why don't you run downstairs and get the company plates. 2003 Mich. Q. Rev. 42 223 The polished dining room table, and the tall glassed cabinets, company china and Passover dishes. < as lemmas |
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