| 单词 | grape-nuts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrape-nuts grape-nuts n. (the trade name for) a breakfast cereal, a patent preparation of maize or wheat in a crisp granular form. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > prepared grains polentaOE groats?a1100 tisanea1425 oat groatsa1475 grist?1567 polent1577 French barley1596 pearl barley1639 shelled corn1676 pot barley1761 burghul1764 semolina1784 yokeag1824 burgoo1825 Scotch barley1825 pearl sago1828 semoletta1844 semola1853 manna croup1864 manna groats1864 corn chip1868 rolled oats1870 flake-manna1886 flake-tapioca1886 grape-nuts1898 kibble1902 stamped mealies1911 stamp1923 bulgur1934 freekeh1940 stamp mealies1952 1898 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 14 June 1657/1 Cereal food for human consumption. Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Mich... Grape-Nuts... Used since December 1, 1897. 1902 Granta 3 May 286/1 It will be a pleasant puzzle for your readers to discover where the Grape-Nuts come in. 1903 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List Sept. 11/2 Grape Nuts..per packet, about 2 lb. 0/7. 1905 G. K. Chesterton Heretics 136 There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grape-nuts on principle. 1927 T. E. Lawrence Let. 8 Sept. (1938) 536 You [sc. E. M. Forster] called your novel-book ‘a saucerful of last week's grapenuts’. 1956 Trade Marks Jrnl. 18 Apr. 243/1 Grape-Nuts... General Foods Corporation..City of White Plains, State of New York,..Manufacturers. < as lemmas |
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