单词 | fairy bread |
释义 | > as lemmasfairy bread fairy bread n. Cookery (a) = French toast n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b (now rare); (b) chiefly Australian and New Zealand a dish of sliced bread and butter covered with hundreds and thousands (‘sprinkles’). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > toast > [noun] frit14.. French toast1660 toast1735 tops and bottoms1765 fairy bread1874 Melba toast1913 eggy bread1983 1874 Home Cook Bk. 59 French toast, or fairy bread. 1901 North Adams (Mass.) Evening Transcript 5 Feb. Fairy bread. Put two ounces of loaf sugar into a pint of milk, [etc.]. 1929 Mercury (Hobart) 25 Apr. 9/4 The children will start their party with fairy bread and butter and 100's and 1,000's, and cakes. 1981 Macquarie Dict. 640/2 Fairy bread, buttered bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands. 1994 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 142 Overjoyed guests..were greeted with trays of fairy bread and glasses of fizz. < as lemmas |
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