单词 | dinner alarm |
释义 | > as lemmasdinner alarm g. Designating a sound used to announce that dinner is ready to be served and eaten, or the device used to make this sound, as in dinner alarm, dinner siren. See also dinner bell n., dinner call n. 1, dinner gong n., dinner horn n. ΚΠ 1829 in Monthly Mag. Oct. 376 Hark! I hear..The sweet-toned dinner chime! 1850 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 31 Aug. 2/3 The dinner alarm sent the crowd to table. 1921 A. E. Coppard Adam & Eve & pinch Me (1922) 211 They then busied themselves in the garden until the dinner siren warned them that Mother would be coming home. 1986 F. Parkin Mind & Body Shop 28 The refectory dinner klaxon sounded far above them. < as lemmas |
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