单词 | dinner bowl |
释义 | > as lemmasdinner bowl d. Designating crockery, cutlery, etc., used for serving or eating dinner, as in dinner bowl, dinner napkin, dinner plate. See also dinner service n., dinner set n., dinnerware n. ΚΠ 1775 Northampton Mercury 18 Dec. The Laundry..was broken open last Night, and the following Linen stolen..two Irish Diaper Dinner-Napkins. 1788 J. Wedgwood Let. 5 May in F. Doherty 18th-Cent. Intellect. Friendship (1986) 257 If you could tell me how many dozen of dinner and soup plates..or what number of persons you would have the service to dine I could guess at the rest. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxii, in All Year Round 2 Mar. 483/1 A dinner-napkin will not go into a tumbler. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 5 An innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors. 1917 Pop. Mech. Apr. 123/1 (advt.) Six dinner plates,..6 breakfast plates,..6 cups, 6 saucers, 6 fruit dishes,..1 meat platter, [etc.]. 1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. 177 While the ladies are backstage washing the dinner dishes. 1968 Daily Mail 20 Apr. 12/2 The salivating expectancy with which we eyed it, like a spaniel about to be presented with its dinner bowl. 2012 L. Belanger Boston Homegrown Cookbook 115 If you encounter one on your dinner plate, it's typically loligo pealei, longfin squid. < as lemmas |
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