| 单词 | grocers' currants |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrocers' currants 1. The raisin or dried fruit prepared from a dwarf seedless variety of grape, grown in the Levant; much used in cookery and confectionery. (Familiarly distinguished from 2 as grocers' currants or shop currants.) extracted from currantn. a. † raisins of Corauntz n. (also raisins of Corinth, etc.) Obsolete ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > dried fruit > [noun] > raisin > types of raisin raisins of Corauntz?c1390 small raisinc1485 currantc1503 Malaga raisin1629 muscatel1803 bloom1841 sultana raisin1841 Smyrna1845 Valencia1867 1334 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) II. 545 Raisins de Corauntz.] ?c1390 Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. 6 Lat it seeth togedre with powdor-fort of gynger..with raysons of Coraunte. 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 217 Item, ffor vj. li. reysonys off corawnce, xviij. d. 1471 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 355 Send me woord qwath price a li. of..reysonys of coranis [Draft MS reads corons]. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Compoundes f. 27 v, in Bulwarke of Defence Take..of Raisons of Corans picked. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxxxi. 652 The smal Raysens which are commonly called Corantes, but more rightly Raysens of Corinthe. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 122 The small Raisins of Corinth, which we commonly call Currants. b. corauntz, currence, currants, currant, etc. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > dried fruit > [noun] > raisin > types of raisin raisins of Corauntz?c1390 small raisinc1485 currantc1503 Malaga raisin1629 muscatel1803 bloom1841 sultana raisin1841 Smyrna1845 Valencia1867 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxixv/1 Coraunce at i d' ob'. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 14 Item for a butte of currantes, iii.s. iiii.d. 1578 [see raisins of Corauntz n. at sense 1a]. 1582 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 165 The plant that beareth the Coren. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 37 Three pound of Sugar, fiue pound of Currence, Rice. View more context for this quotation 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 98 Grapes of Corinth, or Currants. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xiii. 118 A prune, a raisen, or a corrin. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. Observ. 285 The chief riches of the Island [Zant] consist in Corinths. 1733 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. i. 3 I suppose you have Currans, Raisons, and Sugars. 1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) 48 Breakfast..on Water-gruel with Currants. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 115 A plumb-pudding, composed of flour with raisins and corinths. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxxiii Had I not best go out and order raisins and corinths for the wedding-cake? 1860 A. J. Harvey Our Cruise Claymore 271 Of late years the currant has been much more extensively grown in the neighbourhood of Corinth. < as lemmas |
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