单词 | farmhouse |
释义 | farmhousen. The main residential building on a farm.In quot. 1533: a cottage, a hut. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] > farmhouse grangec1300 farmhouse1533 farm1583 hall-house1603 station house1840 homestead1849 ranch house1859 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. App. i. 304 He commandit racilia his wiff to bring his govne fra þe ferme hous [c1540 somer schele, L. e tugurio] quhar he dwelt. 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 78 Villa proprely is a ferme hous, or, a manour hous, or any other hous, made and sette without the citie to dwell in, & to haue housbandry occupyed. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. iii. 79 Ile bring thee Where mistris An Page is a feasting at a farm house. 1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 103 The great Farm-House call'd Chilswell Farm. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 134 Every antique farm house..is a picture. 1920 Glasgow Herald 12 Nov. 8 Farmhouses and haysheds were also fired between Killarney and Tralee. 2018 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 8 Apr. A plethora of boutique hotels and converted farmhouses has sprung up, welcoming a new breed of visitors. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier, as in farmhouse kitchen, etc. ΚΠ 1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. xxxiii. 283 Whoever passed the pull, rung the bell; so that in a farm-house kitchen, where a mistress and two or three maids were some of them almost always on the foot, an incessant peal was kept up. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 142 The farm-house garden. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 57/1 Farmhouse-gate sales are considerable. 2013 Weekend Austral. (Travel ed.) (Nexis) 12 Oct. (Review section) 6 Wide fields of flax, sun-yellowed grasses,..and beds of irises growing from thatched farmhouse roofs. C2. As a modifier, designating a food or drink made on or as if on a farm, esp. using traditional methods, as in farmhouse ale, farmhouse cheese, etc. ΚΠ 1796 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent (new ed.) v. 84 This is the common farm-house bread of East Kent. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxv. 267 Regaling themselves with savoury anticipations of farm-house luxuries. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xi. 301 Common farm-house sausages are made with nearly equal parts of fat and lean pork. 1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 134 Home-made bread and farmhouse cream and butter. 2001 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 24 May 1 t A cork-finished farmhouse ale from France or Trappist ale from Belgium can have all the complexity of a fine French Champagne. 2014 Corkman (Nexis) 27 Mar. 52 Farmhouse cheeses are made in a huge variety of styles, from the freshest cheese to the rustic and mature hard cheese that has been carefully minded for years. C3. As a modifier, designating a meal served on or typical of that served on a farm, esp. comprising home-grown or home-made produce, as in farmhouse dinner, farmhouse tea, etc. ΚΠ 1816 M. A. Schimmelpenninck Narr. Demolit. Monastery Port Royal des Champs 315 If we liked to take a farm-house dinner, they would with the greatest pleasure get us whatever their house afforded. 1824 Minerva 28 Feb. 369/2 We sat down together to the homely pleasantries of a farm house meal. 1858 A. von Beresford Millicent I. 199 A regular substantial meal; the beau ideal of a Farmhouse tea. Such bread, such butter, such cakes, such eggs, such cream, such jams! 1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency vii. 55 We'd all break for a farmhouse tea of hot buttered scones at four o'clock. 2009 Guardian 12 Sept. (Travel section) 4/4 A farmhouse supper (greens from the vegetable garden and their own beef). C4. farmhouse loaf n. a white loaf of an oval or rectangular shape, with a rounded top. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > other types of loaf white loafeOE barley loafc950 French loafc1350 pease loafc1390 penny loaf1418 jannock?a1500 household loaf1565 boon-loaf1679 farmhouse loaf1795 cottage loaf1829 potato loaf1831 sod1836 Coburg1843 sweet roll1851 stale1874 Hovis1890 Sally Lunn1901 bloomer loaf1937 wholemeal1957 baguette1958 1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales III. lxi. 88 Bread..is nearly the same price as in England; I mean such as is made from the white flour; but they grow an inferior kind, considerably darker when baked than our farm-house loaves. 1873 Geol. Mag. 10 341 The Orme is composed of several squatted, rounded masses of Carboniferous Limestone, resembling huge farmhouse loaves. 2019 @ShiptonMill 12 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 1 July 2019) We've shared a recipe for a classic white farmhouse loaf on the blog this week, just perfect for morning toast. farmhouse sink n. (a) a kitchen sink in a farmhouse; (b) spec. (chiefly North American and Australian) a type of (usually large, rectangular) deep sink with vertical sides, traditionally made of glazed white fireclay; cf. butler's sink n. at butler n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1942 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 15 Aug. 3/3 She grabbed a tin washing bowl from the farmhouse sink. 1992 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 July x. 3/5 The farmhouse sink: deep, wide English imports made of vitreous china with a porcelain glaze. 2018 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News (Nexis) 30 Nov. c2 A farmhouse sink and country cabinets can look out of place in an ultra-modern home. farmhouse-style adj. of a style characteristic of or associated with farmhouses. ΚΠ 1911 Standard 1 Mar. 14/4 (advt.) Picturesque farmhouse style residence. 2010 Ideal Home May 121 Emma loves the way the super-contemporary glossy units work well with the classic rich walnut worktop, terracotta floor tiles and farmhouse-style table. farmhouse table n. a kitchen or dining table in a farmhouse; a large wooden table, esp. in a rustic style. ΚΠ 1842 Hereford Jrnl. 23 Feb. (advt.) Two large farm house tables, other dining and round tables. 1865 E. Meteyard Life J. Wedgwood I. 80 The homely wooden bowl and wooden spoon may yet be found on the farmhouse tables of Shropshire, Cheshire, and other counties. 2018 New Yorker 17 Sept. 32/1 The kitchen..has a long farmhouse table and cabinets painted forest green. Derivatives ˈfarmhouse-like adj. resembling (that of) a farmhouse. ΚΠ 1856 J. C. Byrne Flemish Interiors xii. 215 It [sc. the building] had an old-fashioned, hospitable, farmhouse-like look about it. 1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. xv. 138 All the furniture of the simplest and most farmhouse-like kind. 2016 Red Eye (Chicago) 25 Mar. 20/1 Move farther into the rustic farmhouse-like dining area and you'll spot jar after jar of spices and herbs lining two wooden walls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1533 |
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