单词 | dorset |
释义 | Dorsetn.1 Used elliptically or attributively in designation of things produced in or originally peculiar to the county of Dorset. ΚΠ 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 164 Golden-dorset. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 164 The Golden Ducket Dauset. 1824 J. Wight Mornings at Bow St. 4 There was toast and prime Dorset, and muffins and crumpets. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 24 Tubs of weekly Dorset, and cloudy rolls of ‘best fresh’. 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxvi. 360 The English breed..the Dorset—a close-coated, white-faced horned breed, which produces two crops of lambs within the year. 1897 H. G. Wells Plattner Story 205 He wanted us to eat Dorset butter. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 259/1 Dorset Down, one of the Down breed sheep with fine close wool which is used largely for Cheviot quality woollens and for hosiery yarns. 1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 190 Dorset Blue cheese (also known as Blue Vinney)..is a skimmed-milk cheese. 1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 75/1 Dorset clay, Poole Clay..is generally known in Staffordshire as blue clay. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 63 Mr. K. Hebditch's Dorset Down flock. 1970 Guardian 28 Feb. 11/1 The Dorset horn sheep is the only breed which can produce more than one set of lambs a year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2021). Dorsetn.2 Used attributively and elliptically to designate a prehistoric culture which flourished in the American Arctic during the first millennium a.d., and was displaced by the Thule culture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific prehistoric Bronze Age1863 Iron Age1868 Cromerian1922 Olmecan1929 Ahrensburg1931 Ghassulian1931 Yuma1932 Dorset1933 Oldowan1934 Cortaillod1940 Clovis1943 Olmec1943 Ahrensburgian1950 Ubaid1952 Olmecoid1956 pre-Clovis1962 Lapita1971 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific prehistoric culture Thule1927 Folsom1928 Yuma1932 Badarian1949 Dorset1960 Pre-Dorset1962 Lapita1971 1925 D. Jenness in Geogr. Rev. XV. 437 The Cape Dorset culture, while more primitive in some respects than the Thule, is certainly not the culture of the first Eskimos who settled on the coast.] 1933 D. Jenness Amer. Aborigines 390 The much deeper patination and greater wear on the Dorset culture specimens..seemed to indicate that..they were of greater antiquity than the Thule remains. 1940 Amer. Antiq. V. 323 The points with one line hole above the other are unlike the two-holed ones from ‘Dorset’ culture sites. 1960 L. A. Brennan No Stone Unturned xiv. 263 The first suppositions were of a direct contact with a land-hunting culture called the Dorset, of the eastern Arctic area, supplying out of hand to southern Indian cultural traits such as bone, combs, [etc.]. 1985 Sci. Amer. Nov. 164/3 Lake Harbour Pre-Dorset people, and to a lesser extent descendant Dorset people, were inclined to focus on small seals and caribou. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.11747n.21933 |
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