| 单词 | long sweetening |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong sweetening long sweetening n. North American regional (now chiefly historical) a sticky or viscous substance, esp. molasses, used as a sweetener. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > in sugar manufacture > molasses molasses1582 syrup1599 treacle1694 long sweetening1714 syrup of sugar1715 long sugar1728 'lasses1775 longlick1826 sweetness1920 1714 in Colonial Rec. N. Carolina (1886) II. 132 Let who will go unpaid, Rum long sweet'n alias Mollasses..must be had. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Long sweetening, molasses, so called formerly in New England. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xxi. 352 The sorghum used for ‘long sweetening’ did little to improve the taste. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier (1993) xxvii. 291 The so-called ‘long sweetening’ was honey obtained from bee trees. 1995 R. Morgan Truest Pleasure vi. 84 The long sweetening was calling every yellow jacket for miles. Honeybees joined the feast too. long sweetening long sweetening, short sweetening: see long sweetening n. at long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4a.extracted from sweeteningn.< as lemmas |
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