单词 | kitchen garden |
释义 | kitchen gardenn. 1. A garden or area in which vegetables, herbs, fruit, etc., are grown, typically for domestic use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > kitchen- or herb-garden wortyardOE kitchen garden1376 calgarth14.. pot garden1511 herbary1625 potagera1684 plantiequoy1686 potagerie1693 olitory1706 yard1718 kailyard1725 vegetable garden1756 plantiecrue1806 cabbage patch1810 cole-garth1865 victory garden1942 1376 Close Roll, 49 Edward III (P.R.O.: C 54/213) m. 42 dorso Et quoddam gardinum vocatum la kechengardyn. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Iardin à herbes & arbres, a kitchin garden. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 60 in Sylva Kitchen-Garden herbs may now be planted, as Parsly, Spinage. 1789 Ann. Reg. 1787 78/1 Experiments on early Dutch turnep-seed, sowed on beds in my kitchen garden. 1884 J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. July 234/2 There is a kitchen-garden with..asparagus beds and potato-patches. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather xv. 269 See, here's the wall of the kitchen garden. You go along it, and on your left you will see this sty in a little paddock. 2015 Oxf. Times 21 May 82/2 Kitchen gardens, greenhouse and fruit cage provide organically grown produce. 2. Education (chiefly North American). A school or class for children (esp. girls) giving practical instruction in housekeeping skills. Also: an educational system for teaching such skills to young children through songs, games, and guided play. Cf. kitchengarten n. Now historical and rare.This system, developed in the mid 1870s by Emily Huntington at the Wilson Industrial School, New York, applied Friedrich Fröbel's concept of the kindergarten to the teaching of domestic skills, with the aim of preparing underprivileged girls for employment in domestic service and for a future role as homemaker. ΚΠ 1877 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Press 5 Apr. It is the kitchen-garden of the school in which this branch of ‘household art’ is taught. 1878 E. Huntington Kitchen Garden 10 The course planned, and its value proved by trial, I have put it into its present form, that others may use my ‘Kitchen-Garden’, as I have called this system of teaching little children the rudiments of housework in a bright, cheerful way. 1918 A. H. Leake Vocational Educ. Girls & Women i. 21 In one respect the kitchen garden method has a decided advantage over the household arts as ordinarily taught in the schools, and that is, it stresses general household duties. 2018 S. A. Carter Object Lessons Notes 164 The formal Kitchen Garden curriculum was modified several times from the 1870s through the 1910s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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