| 单词 | empire biscuit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasempire biscuit empire biscuit n. chiefly Scottish a type of sandwich biscuit consisting of two round pieces of shortcake with a jam filling, topped with icing and (typically) a glacé cherry.In quot. 1886 it is unclear what type of biscuit is being described.Empire biscuit is said to have replaced its synonym German biscuit as the usual name of this type of biscuit around the time of the First World War (1914–18) in order to avoid the perceived negative connotations of the latter. ΚΠ 1886 Leeds Mercury 27 Feb. (advt.) Wm. Low and Company, 6, Briggate, Leeds, are Retailing Dundee-made Biscuits... The ‘Empire’ Biscuit (registered) is the Talk of the Country. 1928 Auckland Star 1 Sept. 4/2 Those pleasant little combinations of shortbread, icing sugar, raspberry jam and crystallised cherries called in the good old pre-war days ‘German’, now Teutophobically changed to ‘Empire’, biscuits. 1985 M. Munro Patter 76 Who's wheeched the last empire biscuit? 2000 Edinb. Evening News 5 Dec. 17 Empire biscuits, or known to me in those pre-PC days as German biscuits... I loved to run my razor-sharp baby teeth through the icing—after munching the glace cherry on top. < as lemmas |
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