| 单词 | leather breeches |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleather breeches leather breeches n. U.S. dialect dried beans or dried bean-pods; beans that have been dried and then cooked in their shells. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > dried beans leather breeches1913 1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders 292 Beans dried in the pod, then boiled ‘hull and all’ are called leather-breeches (this is not slang, but the regular name). 1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 35 Leather breeches, dried kidney beans. 1943 R. Chase in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) 470 Such communal tasks as stringing beans for canning, or threading them up to make the dried pods known as ‘leather britches’. 1972 E. Wigginton Foxfire Bk. 15 He..dried leather Britches beans. 1972 E. Wigginton Foxfire Bk. 167 Leather breeches beans... Take a string of dried green beans down, remove the thread, and drop them in a pot of scalding water. < as lemmas |
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