| 单词 | german congreve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman Congreve German Congreve n. [compare Congreve n. 2] now historical a kind of safety match. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting > specifically ignited by friction allumette1601 fire cane1644 paper match1780 Strasbourg match1825 match1830 lucifer match1831 fusee1832 loco-foco1835 oxymuriatic match1835 Congreve1839 Vesta1839 friction-match1847 safety match1850 German Congreve1851 Vesuvian1853 star1862 safety1876 tandstickor1884 post-and-railsa1890 book match1899 Swan Vesta1908 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 432/1 The ‘German Congreves’ were soon after introduced. 1927 Burlington Mag. Jan. p. xxxii/2 If our present coins were as well designed as are the labels of some of these early German ‘Congreve’ match-boxes, money would be even a pleasanter thing to collect. < as lemmas |
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