单词 | fruit salad |
释义 | fruit saladn. 1. Mixed chopped fruit (typically uncooked), usually served in its juice or in a light syrup and eaten as a dessert. Also as a count noun. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > other fruit dishes figee1381 garnadec1440 gayledea1450 strawberry cream1523 strawberry shortcake1523 amber pudding1695 fufu1740 tum tum1790 poi1798 fig-cake1837 compote1845 ambrosia1867 summer pudding1875 schalet1884 charoset1885 angels' food1891 stuffed olive1897 chartreuse1900 crisp1916 guacamole1920 fruit cocktail1922 pimiento olive1925 fruit cup1931 crumble1947 matoke1959 turon1972 guac1983 bumbleberry1991 1855 H. Reid Cookery (ed. 2) xiv. 161 Fruit Salad for Dessert. In a glass or other ornamental dish spread some ripe luscious fruit..and pounded loaf sugar in alternate layers. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxi. 798 Fruit salads are made by stripping the fruit from the stalks, piling it on a dish, and sprinkling over it finely-pounded sugar. 1925 Times 2 Sept. 10/2 It seemed to me that everything, from chicken en casserole..to fruit salad and vanilla ice, all had the same taste. 1964 B. Falk Peacock Cookery Bk. 136 A fruit salad can be made from any mixture of fresh fruit in season together with some tinned fruit, or from fresh fruit alone. 2009 A. Telford Basics 7 Fruit salad is best eaten on the day or, at the very latest, the next day. 2. figurative. A mixture of many different things; a medley. Cf. macédoine n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 1917 Archit. Rec. June 538/1 If it is a matter of color, give it [sc. a photograph] a fruit salad of colors and so arrange them that they represent a landscape. 1955 Blackfriars Mar. 72 Many new churches have been built... Even when the strict Gothic is abandoned, the alternative seems only too often to be a veritable fruit salad of mixed conventional forms. 1990 Daily Times (Delaware County, Pa.) 5 Oct. 28/3 This play is a real fruit salad, a blend of fantasy with mysticism and comedy. 2021 Feilding-Rangitikei (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 2 Dec. 4 I have honestly got a real fruit salad in the paddock. There's a bit of everything so that I can do lots of mix boxes for florists. 3. Services' slang. A colourful (and copious) array of medal ribbons (or medals) or similar decorations, especially when worn on the chest as part of military uniform. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders > array of decorations fruit salad1941 1941 Newspaper World 29 Mar. 7/3 On his breast he wore a positive fruit salad of medals. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 33 Fruit salad, a large collection of medal ribbons which runs to three or more rows. 1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren iii. 74 A red-faced old gentleman with..a fruit salad of medal ribbons on his chest. 1960 D. MacCuish Do not go Gentle xxix. 462 Looka the pretty ribbons. Where'd ya get the fruit salad, cousin? My, my, the Purple Heart, too. 2016 S. Anderson Lost Kin 82 I don't do this for the silver and gold, some extra fruit salad on my chest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). > as lemmasfruit salad fruit salad n. (a) fruits, usually uncooked, cut up and mixed together, often served with sugar, cream, etc.; (b) an array of service ribbons and decorations (Services' slang). Π 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxi. 798 Fruit salads are made by stripping the fruit from the stalks, piling it on a dish, and sprinkling over it finely-pounded sugar. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 33 Fruit salad, a large collection of medal ribbons which runs to three or more rows. 1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren iii. 74 A red-faced old gentleman with..a fruit salad of medal ribbons on his chest. 1961 Times 19 Apr. 13/3 The ribbons worn on the chest and colloquially called ‘fruit salad’. 1964 B. Falk Peacock Cookery Bk. 136 A fruit salad can be made from any mixture of fresh fruit in season together with some tinned fruit, or from fresh fruit alone. < n.1855 as lemmas |
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