lady's fingern.

Brit.

/ˌleɪdɪz ˈfɪŋɡə/, U.S.

/ˌleɪdiz ˈfɪŋɡər/

Forms:

α. 1500s ladie finger, 1600s– lady finger.

β. 1500s– ladies finger, 1700s– lady's finger, 1800s– ladies' finger, 1900s– ladysfinger.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: lady n., finger n.

Etymology: In α. forms < lady n. + finger n., perhaps originally reflecting a genitive compound with unmarked first element (see discussion at lady n.), so called from the resemblance in shape of the various objects to fingers. In β. forms < the genitive of lady n. + finger n., although the first element is sometimes apprehended as plural.

1. Any of several herbaceous plants with flowers borne in clusters resembling fingers; esp. kidney vetch ( Anthyllis vulneraria) and, formerly, †bird's-foot trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus) (also lady-finger grass). Also in plural with singular agreement.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants

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1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 100 Digitalis, Ladie finger, hoate and drie, mundificatiue, and aperitiue.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 36 Diuers fashioned floures, as yealow Crowfoote, or golden Knop, Oxeye.., Ladies fingers.

1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 24 Anthyllis leguminosa... Kidney-vetch, Ladies finger.

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. xvi. 148 Your Lady-finger-grass (or Birds-foot Trefoil..which is the Botanical Name).

1757 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 842 Kidney Vetch, or Ladies Finger.

1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 306 Anthyllis vulneraria, variety Dillenii, Lady's-fingers, occurs..all along the coast.

1869 Harper's Mag. June 122/1 Lady's Slipper, or Lady's Finger, Called Bird's-foot Trefoil, as I suppose, From shape of the flower and leaf as it grows.

1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 107/2 Narrow-leaved plantain, a few buttercups, a small yellow flower unknown to me (probably ladies' fingers), also a species of dandelion and prunella.

1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) v. 69 Kidney Vetch, Sand Clover, or Ladies' Fingers, is a perennial plant in the wild state, but when cultivated behaves more like a biennial.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 19 Kidney Vetch, Ladies Fingers. In flower all summer from June to September when it can be found growing wild in many parts of Britain..this delightful plant must be one of our brightest and most colourful native species.

2. Applied to various fruits and vegetables having an unusually long and slender form.

a. Any of several varieties of apple.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > other apples

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red greening1664

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sheep's snout1664

spicing apple1664

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pomme d'api1676

rathe-ripe1677

rose1678

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stone apple1736

sops-in-wine1764

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Manx codlin1818

Rymer1820

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tompot1836

Wagener1848

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Jon1931

Idared1942

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. 48/1 The Daubil, or Lady Finger, of some called a Beakiug Glomaine, it is a long Apple, red on one side, and green on the other, having a Beak or Hook, by which it hangs to the Stalk.

1711 J. Lawson in New Coll. Voy. & Trav. 109 Lady-Finger, the long Apple, the same as in England, and full as good.

1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine vii. 154 Others are indeed lady apples..like the egg-drop and lady-finger.

1884 A. F. Barron Brit. Apples 131 In October, such sorts as Irish Green, Winter Strawberry, Ladies' Finger and King of the Pippins sell fairly well.

1905 S. A. Beach Apples of N.Y. I. 183 Several different varieties of apple are known in cultivation under the name Lady Finger but none of these is grown to any considerable extent in New York.

1995 Independent 11 Nov. (Weekend section) 9/2 One was the large crimson cooker, ‘Mère de Ménage’, another the curiously shaped ‘Lady's Finger’, a popular late dessert apple in the 1820s.

b. Chiefly North American. A variety of potato. Now rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > potato plant

potato1597

skirret of Peru1597

Irish potato1664

white potato1723

Virginian potato1731

potato plant1744

potato vine1750

lady's finger1827

peach-blow1861

Chilean potato1870

1827 Loudon's Gardener's Mag. Mar. 171 I shall confine myself to the early kidneys, which seem to be nearly like R.W.'s ‘Lady's Fingers’ or ‘early Rufford kidney potato’.

1840 Family Mag. 7 352/1 He averred he could not tell the difference in taste between the Rohan and the ladies' fingers.

1858 Rep. Industr. Exhib. Mech. Inst. San Francisco 152 There is also a sample of Lady's Fingers..which are very fine.

1930 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Free Press Sept. 25 15/6 In my young days, the fashionable potato was long, slender, slightly curved, bluish; and it's name was Lady's Finger.

c. = okra n. Also in plural with singular agreement.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > okra

okra1679

bhindi1809

gumbo1845

lady's finger1850

1850 Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbk. 37 Bhin,dee, eatable hibiscus, or ‘West Indian Okro’; in Calcutta called Ladies-fingers or Rams-horns.

1905 W. R. Beattie in U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 232. 12 There are three general types of okra, viz., tall green, dwarf green, and lady finger.

1935 ‘Countess Morphy’ Recipes All Nations 771 Chicken with ‘Ladysfingers’... Put in..a few bamies, or ‘ladysfingers’. This vegetable..is a variety of okra, or gombo [sic], but smaller than the okra of the Southern United States.

1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. 147 Indians call it [sc. okra] bhindi and, in their restaurants, ladies' fingers, although this is a name applied to many other plants, including grapes, bananas and a kidney vetch.

2004 New Scientist 17 Apr. 18/1 Extracts of okra, also known as..ladies' fingers, have been shown to gum up the surface of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can cause ulcers, preventing it from clinging to the stomach wall.

d. Originally and chiefly Australian. A variety of grape. Also in plural with singular agreement.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > grape > type of

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Hamburg grape1838

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Concord grape1858

garnacha1860

sultana grape1861

Canaiolo1862

dyer1865

Sémillon1875

Bual1882

lady's finger1892

Grignolino1894

Tokay grape1896

Durif1897

Morocco grape1908

Viognier1908

gros Colmar1927

Montepulciano1927

Shiraz1927

Verdicchio1940

Cinsault1945

Müller-Thurgau1951

Mavrud1959

Pinotage1964

Mavron1965

Syrah1969

Parellada1979

1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 90 The very finest ladies'-fingers, sweet-waters, and muscatels.

1916 C. Ross Observ. on Grapes 16 Lady's Finger is largely grown in South Australia, and is a popular late market variety, although coarse and of poor flavour.

1966 H. Porter Paper Chase 17 Bunches of Lady Finger and Black Hambro grapes.

2003 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 23 July f1 Calmeria... Carries nickname ‘lady fingers’, so called for elongated, light-green and delicately sculpted berries.

e. More fully lady's finger banana. A dwarf variety of banana having fruit with thin skin and sweet flesh. Also in plural with singular agreement.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > banana > [noun] > types of

plantain1582

ensete1790

fei1829

Canary banana1889

lady's finger1893

Gros Michel1913

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana > types of

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Canary banana1889

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Gros Michel1913

honey1938

1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker II. 91 They were sitting..in the banana grove, whither Elsie had gone on pretext of finding some still ungathered ‘Lady's fingers’.

1927 P. K. Reynolds Banana ii. 16 Occasionally the Lady Finger..reaches the Northern markets. This is a very small fruit, the fingers averaging only three inches in length.

1959 N. W. Simmonds Bananas 145 The cultivation of the tall ‘Lady's finger’ banana on the Queensland flats.

2006 Star-Herald (Scottsbluff, Nebraska) 15 Feb. (Neighbors section) 3/6 One type, the lady finger banana, is 4 to 5 inches long and has thin, yellow skin and very sweet flesh.

3. A type of elongated finger-shaped cake or biscuit; a sponge-finger.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits

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nut1775

Oliver biscuit1786

funeral biscuit1790

rock biscuit?1790

ratafia1801

finger biscuit1812

Savoy drop1816

lady's finger1818

snap1819

Abernethy1830

pretzel1831

wine-biscuit1834

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captain's biscuit1843

lebkuchen1847

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Savoy ring1866

Brown George1867

beaten biscuit1876

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Osborne1876

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marie1878

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charcoal biscuit1885

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fairing1888

snickerdoodle1889

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Nice1895

Garibaldi biscuit1896

Oswegoc1900

squashed fly1900

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boerebeskuit1905

Romary1905

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Oswego biscuit1907

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Oreo1912

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Anzac1923

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Afghan1934

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Toll House cookie1940

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Naples cake1766

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gofer1769

yeast-cake1795

nutcake1801

tipsy-cake1806

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baba1813

lady's finger1818

coconut cake1824

mint cake1825

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buckwheat1830

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fat-cake1839

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Nelson cake1877

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marinade1888

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Greek bread1893

Battenberg1903

Oswego cake1907

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dump cake1912

Dobos Torte1915

lekach1918

buckle1935

Florentine1936

hash cake1967

space cake1984

1818 J. Keats Let. 5 July (1958) I. 316 A Pen'orth of Lady's fingers.

1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 196 Honey and ladies' fingers for tea.

1864 ‘M. Twain’ in B. Harte & ‘M. Twain’ Sketches of Sixties (1926) 138 ‘Lady-fingers’..suggestive of..soft dalliance with pastry, ices, and sparkling Moselle.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 10/1 Lady-fingers and ice-cream.

1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iii. 39 ‘Nana’ nibbled at a sponge ‘lady's finger’.

1974 H. McCloy Sleepwalker vi. 108 We adjourned for tea and ladyfingers at quarter of six.

2003 GQ Feb. 86/3 I concluded with a scoop of..marsala-flavored gelato and a modest serving of..tiramisu..made with ladyfingers, chocolate, espresso and mascarpone.

4. In form lady finger. In plural. Fingers characteristic of a lady.

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1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 395 Rose-wood desks, where lady-fingers pen lady-lays.

a1871 A. Cary in Poet. Wks. Alice & Phoebe Cary (1882) 365 The caress Of fingers that I dare not press,—Those lady fingers, white.

1999 D. Margolin Of All Nerve ii. 23 She was an angel..she had long dark hair and long dark fingers..lady fingers.

†5. One of the branchiae of a lobster. Obsolete. rare.

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1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1863) III. 640 The lobster-gills, which are popularly termed the ‘lady's fingers’.

1889 Cent. Dict. Lady's-finger,..2. One of the hairy appendages of the legs of lobsters, attached to the base of the leg. They are the gills or the branchiæ.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ladys finger
释义	lady's fingern. Brit. /ˌleɪdɪz ˈfɪŋɡə/, U.S. /ˌleɪdiz ˈfɪŋɡər/ Forms: α. 1500s ladie finger, 1600s– lady finger. β. 1500s– ladies finger, 1700s– lady's finger, 1800s– ladies' finger, 1900s– ladysfinger. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: lady n., finger n. Etymology: In α. forms < lady n. + finger n., perhaps originally reflecting a genitive compound with unmarked first element (see discussion at lady n.), so called from the resemblance in shape of the various objects to fingers. In β. forms < the genitive of lady n. + finger n., although the first element is sometimes apprehended as plural. 1. Any of several herbaceous plants with flowers borne in clusters resembling fingers; esp. kidney vetch ( Anthyllis vulneraria) and, formerly, †bird's-foot trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus) (also lady-finger grass). Also in plural with singular agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants peaseOE vetchc1400 hatchet vetch1548 mock liquorice1548 scorpion's tail1548 ax-fitch1562 ax-seed1562 axwort1562 treacle clover1562 lady's finger1575 bird's-foot1578 goat's rue1578 horseshoe1578 caterpillar1597 kidney-vetch1597 horseshoe-vetch1640 goat rue1657 kidney-fetch1671 galega1685 stanch1726 scorpion senna1731 Dolichos1753 Sophora1753 partridge pea1787 bauhinia1790 coronilla1793 swamp pea-tree1796 Mysore thorn1814 devil's shoestring1817 pencil flower1817 rattlebox1817 Canavalia1828 milk plant1830 joint-vetch1836 milk pea1843 prairie clover1857 oxytrope1858 rattleweed1864 wart-herb1864 snail-flower1866 poison pea1884 masu1900 money bush1924 Townsville stylo1970 orange bird's-foot2007 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 100 Digitalis, Ladie finger, hoate and drie, mundificatiue, and aperitiue. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 36 Diuers fashioned floures, as yealow Crowfoote, or golden Knop, Oxeye.., Ladies fingers. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 24 Anthyllis leguminosa... Kidney-vetch, Ladies finger. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Mar. xvi. 148 Your Lady-finger-grass (or Birds-foot Trefoil..which is the Botanical Name). 1757 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 842 Kidney Vetch, or Ladies Finger. 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 306 Anthyllis vulneraria, variety Dillenii, Lady's-fingers, occurs..all along the coast. 1869 Harper's Mag. June 122/1 Lady's Slipper, or Lady's Finger, Called Bird's-foot Trefoil, as I suppose, From shape of the flower and leaf as it grows. 1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 107/2 Narrow-leaved plantain, a few buttercups, a small yellow flower unknown to me (probably ladies' fingers), also a species of dandelion and prunella. 1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) v. 69 Kidney Vetch, Sand Clover, or Ladies' Fingers, is a perennial plant in the wild state, but when cultivated behaves more like a biennial. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 19 Kidney Vetch, Ladies Fingers. In flower all summer from June to September when it can be found growing wild in many parts of Britain..this delightful plant must be one of our brightest and most colourful native species. 2. Applied to various fruits and vegetables having an unusually long and slender form. a. Any of several varieties of apple. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > other apples Bretonc1390 stur1483 marigold apple1577 fritter1591 Margaret1597 critling1611 cat's-head1617 rosiar1620 rose apple1626 snouting1651 roundling1655 mayflower1664 red greening1664 seaming1664 sheep's snout1664 spicing apple1664 violet-apple1664 pomme d'api1676 rathe-ripe1677 rose1678 lady's finger1688 stone apple1736 sops-in-wine1764 stone pippin1769 Manx codlin1818 Rymer1820 Roxbury russet1826 souring1832 genet1833 tompot1836 Wagener1848 flesh and blood1853 pick-thong1871 virgin1886 Jon1931 Idared1942 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. 48/1 The Daubil, or Lady Finger, of some called a Beakiug Glomaine, it is a long Apple, red on one side, and green on the other, having a Beak or Hook, by which it hangs to the Stalk. 1711 J. Lawson in New Coll. Voy. & Trav. 109 Lady-Finger, the long Apple, the same as in England, and full as good. 1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine vii. 154 Others are indeed lady apples..like the egg-drop and lady-finger. 1884 A. F. Barron Brit. Apples 131 In October, such sorts as Irish Green, Winter Strawberry, Ladies' Finger and King of the Pippins sell fairly well. 1905 S. A. Beach Apples of N.Y. I. 183 Several different varieties of apple are known in cultivation under the name Lady Finger but none of these is grown to any considerable extent in New York. 1995 Independent 11 Nov. (Weekend section) 9/2 One was the large crimson cooker, ‘Mère de Ménage’, another the curiously shaped ‘Lady's Finger’, a popular late dessert apple in the 1820s. b. Chiefly North American. A variety of potato. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > potato plant potato1597 skirret of Peru1597 Irish potato1664 white potato1723 Virginian potato1731 potato plant1744 potato vine1750 lady's finger1827 peach-blow1861 Chilean potato1870 1827 Loudon's Gardener's Mag. Mar. 171 I shall confine myself to the early kidneys, which seem to be nearly like R.W.'s ‘Lady's Fingers’ or ‘early Rufford kidney potato’. 1840 Family Mag. 7 352/1 He averred he could not tell the difference in taste between the Rohan and the ladies' fingers. 1858 Rep. Industr. Exhib. Mech. Inst. San Francisco 152 There is also a sample of Lady's Fingers..which are very fine. 1930 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Free Press Sept. 25 15/6 In my young days, the fashionable potato was long, slender, slightly curved, bluish; and it's name was Lady's Finger. c. = okra n. Also in plural with singular agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > okra okra1679 bhindi1809 gumbo1845 lady's finger1850 1850 Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbk. 37 Bhin,dee, eatable hibiscus, or ‘West Indian Okro’; in Calcutta called Ladies-fingers or Rams-horns. 1905 W. R. Beattie in U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 232. 12 There are three general types of okra, viz., tall green, dwarf green, and lady finger. 1935 ‘Countess Morphy’ Recipes All Nations 771 Chicken with ‘Ladysfingers’... Put in..a few bamies, or ‘ladysfingers’. This vegetable..is a variety of okra, or gombo [sic], but smaller than the okra of the Southern United States. 1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. 147 Indians call it [sc. okra] bhindi and, in their restaurants, ladies' fingers, although this is a name applied to many other plants, including grapes, bananas and a kidney vetch. 2004 New Scientist 17 Apr. 18/1 Extracts of okra, also known as..ladies' fingers, have been shown to gum up the surface of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that can cause ulcers, preventing it from clinging to the stomach wall. d. Originally and chiefly Australian. A variety of grape. Also in plural with singular agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > grape > type of labruscaa1398 muscadel1517 muscadine1598 olive grape1601 grapeletc1620 burlace1629 frontignaca1642 fox-grape1648 verjuice grape1648 muscat1655 morillon1691 muscatel1691 grapeling1694 chasselas1699 muscadella1707 frontignan1756 Morocco1763 Pineau1763 Malaga1769 wild grape1770 Nebbiolo1788 Macabeo1794 Malbec1833 Hamburg grape1838 muscadel1852 Concord grape1858 garnacha1860 sultana grape1861 Canaiolo1862 dyer1865 Sémillon1875 Bual1882 lady's finger1892 Grignolino1894 Tokay grape1896 Durif1897 Morocco grape1908 Viognier1908 gros Colmar1927 Montepulciano1927 Shiraz1927 Verdicchio1940 Cinsault1945 Müller-Thurgau1951 Mavrud1959 Pinotage1964 Mavron1965 Syrah1969 Parellada1979 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 90 The very finest ladies'-fingers, sweet-waters, and muscatels. 1916 C. Ross Observ. on Grapes 16 Lady's Finger is largely grown in South Australia, and is a popular late market variety, although coarse and of poor flavour. 1966 H. Porter Paper Chase 17 Bunches of Lady Finger and Black Hambro grapes. 2003 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 23 July f1 Calmeria... Carries nickname ‘lady fingers’, so called for elongated, light-green and delicately sculpted berries. e. More fully lady's finger banana. A dwarf variety of banana having fruit with thin skin and sweet flesh. Also in plural with singular agreement. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > banana > [noun] > types of plantain1582 ensete1790 fei1829 Canary banana1889 lady's finger1893 Gros Michel1913 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana > types of apple of paradise1572 plantain1582 Adam's apple1588 plantain1756 ensete1790 fei1829 Abyssinian banana1859 honey banana1877 scarlet banana1885 Canary banana1889 lady's finger banana1893 Gros Michel1913 honey1938 1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker II. 91 They were sitting..in the banana grove, whither Elsie had gone on pretext of finding some still ungathered ‘Lady's fingers’. 1927 P. K. Reynolds Banana ii. 16 Occasionally the Lady Finger..reaches the Northern markets. This is a very small fruit, the fingers averaging only three inches in length. 1959 N. W. Simmonds Bananas 145 The cultivation of the tall ‘Lady's finger’ banana on the Queensland flats. 2006 Star-Herald (Scottsbluff, Nebraska) 15 Feb. (Neighbors section) 3/6 One type, the lady finger banana, is 4 to 5 inches long and has thin, yellow skin and very sweet flesh. 3. A type of elongated finger-shaped cake or biscuit; a sponge-finger. 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Keats Let. 5 July (1958) I. 316 A Pen'orth of Lady's fingers. 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 196 Honey and ladies' fingers for tea. 1864 ‘M. Twain’ in B. Harte & ‘M. Twain’ Sketches of Sixties (1926) 138 ‘Lady-fingers’..suggestive of..soft dalliance with pastry, ices, and sparkling Moselle. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 10/1 Lady-fingers and ice-cream. 1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iii. 39 ‘Nana’ nibbled at a sponge ‘lady's finger’. 1974 H. McCloy Sleepwalker vi. 108 We adjourned for tea and ladyfingers at quarter of six. 2003 GQ Feb. 86/3 I concluded with a scoop of..marsala-flavored gelato and a modest serving of..tiramisu..made with ladyfingers, chocolate, espresso and mascarpone. 4. In form lady finger. In plural. Fingers characteristic of a lady. ΚΠ 1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 395 Rose-wood desks, where lady-fingers pen lady-lays. a1871 A. Cary in Poet. Wks. Alice & Phoebe Cary (1882) 365 The caress Of fingers that I dare not press,—Those lady fingers, white. 1999 D. Margolin Of All Nerve ii. 23 She was an angel..she had long dark hair and long dark fingers..lady fingers. †5. One of the branchiae of a lobster. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1863) III. 640 The lobster-gills, which are popularly termed the ‘lady's fingers’. 1889 Cent. Dict. Lady's-finger,..2. One of the hairy appendages of the legs of lobsters, attached to the base of the leg. They are the gills or the branchiæ. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1575
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