单词 | montpellier |
释义 | Montpelliern. I. Simple uses. 1. the Montpellier of ——: the place regarded as the most pleasant and beneficial to health in a specified region.With allusion to the perception of Montpellier in southern France as having a particularly pleasant and healthy location and situation.Less common after the early 20th cent. ΚΠ 1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. i. 1 St. Edmund's Bury..is a Town fam'd for its pleasant Situation and wholsome air, the Montpelier of Suffolk, and perhaps of England. 1798 Edinb. Mag. Apr. 248/2 It [sc. the Cape of Good Hope] may,..in my opinion, be stiled the Montpellier of the Southern Hemisphere. 1820 Leigh's New Picture Eng. & Wales 488 Richmond..is the finest, the most luxuriant, the most picturesque spot in the British dominions, and from the singular beauty of its situation, has been termed the Frescati and the Montpellier of England. 1857 J. Holdsworth Geol. Ireland xiii. 226 A happy combination of some such physical agreméns, has..entitled Rosstrevor to be designated the Montpellier of Ireland. 1898 E. D. Mead in L. P. Powell Hist. Towns New Eng. 113 Old Rutland might well be called the Montpellier of Massachusetts. 1967 E. S. Turner Taking Cure xiv. 203 Almost every English spa professed to be the Montpellier of its region. 1999 Independent 22 May (Money section) 10/1 Bury St Edmunds..has a Georgian appearance and is known as the Montpellier of England. II. Compounds. 2. Montpellier maple n. (also Montpelier maple) a small tree or shrub, Acer monspessulanum, native to the Mediterranean region and cultivated elsewhere, which resembles the field maple, A. campestre, but has leaves with three entire, wide-spreading lobes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun] maple treeOE maplec1385 plane tree1562 great maple1597 sycamore-tree1597 sycamore1598 sugar-tree1705 sugar maple1731 red maple1767 scarlet maple1768 rock maple1774 white maple1774 silk wood1775 moosewood1778 mountain maple1785 box elder1787 acer1793 sycamore maple1796 mock plane1797 Montpellier maple1797 water maple1803 soft maple1806 sugar-wood1809 swamp maple1810 low maple1813 maple bush1821 Neapolitan maple1833 snake-bark1838 moose-maple1839 sap-tree1843 Manitoba maple1887 Japanese maple1898 curly maple1909 Queensland maple1915 paperbark maple1927 Amur maple1934 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/1 The [Acer] monspesulanum [sic], or Montpelier maple, is common in the south of France and in Italy; but is hardly met with in Britain. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 77/2 Acer Monspessulanum, the Montpellier maple... Found in dry stony situations in Languedoc, Dauphiny, Provence, and Piedmont. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) I. 22/1 A[cer] monspessulanum. Montpelier maple. Tree of dense, rounded habit, 20 to 30 (sometimes 50) ft. 1993 B. Press & D. Hosking Photogr. Field Guide Trees Brit. & Europe 192 Montpelier Maple Acer monspessulanum... Small tree or shrub with domed crown and black or grey cracked bark. 2014 K. S. Talebi et al. Forests of Iran iii. 84 Montpellier maple is a low-demanding, short tree or shrub..growing from 1,900 to 2,700 m.a.s.l. and on shallow, calcareous, alkaline soils. 3. Montpellier butter n. Cookery butter flavoured and coloured green with a mixture of shallots, gherkin, mixed herbs, and hard-boiled egg, and usually served with fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > butter sauces burneux1430 brown butter1653 butter1654 butter saucea1665 melted butter1807 poulette1813 black butter1824 rum butter1824 Montpellier butter1830 maître d'hôtel sauce1845 beurre noir1855 beurréa1865 sugar-butter sauce1901 brandy-butter1939 1822 L. E. Ude French Cook 279 Aspic and Salad of Fillets of Soles, with Butter of Montpelier.] 1830 R. Dolby Cook's Dict. 87 Take some Montpelier butter (either green or red) and spread it equally over two saucepan-lids. 1889 A. B. Marshall Cookery Bk. ii. 38 Montpellier or green butter. 1960 E. David French Provinc. Cooking 117 Montpellier butter is usually served with salmon and the chef's way of doing it is to have a fine piece of middle cut of cold salmon with the skin removed, and the fish thickly spread with the green butter. 1995 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. 1 d Poached whole salmon in Montpellier butter. 2007 A. Willan Country Cooking France 67/1 Montpellier butter is a classic accompaniment to roast fish, a cross between herb butter and an herb mayonnaise and better than either. 4. Painting. a. Montpellier yellow n. now historical Turner's yellow, lead oxychloride (see Turner n.3). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments yelloweOE motey1353 arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 ochre1440 pink1464 massicot1472 yellow ochre1482 orpine1548 painter's gold1591 spruce1668 giallolino1728 king's yellow1738 Naples yellow1738 stil de grain1769 yellow earth1794 queen's yellow1806 chromate1819 chrome yellow1819 Oxford ochre1827 Indian yellow1831 Italian pink1835 Montpellier yellow1835 Turner1835 quercitron lake1837 jaune brillant1851 zinc chromate1851 zinc sulphide1851 brush-gold1861 zooxanthin1868 Oxford chrome1875 aureolin1879 cadmium yellow1879 Cassel yellow1882 Neapolitan yellow1891 zinc chrome1892 Mars1899 jaune jonquille1910 1835 G. Field Chromatogr. ix. 77 Patent Yellow, Turner's Yellow, or Montpellier Yellow..has an excellent body, and works well in oil and water, but is soon injured both by the sun's light and impure air. 1885 W. D. Richmond Colour & Colour Printing iv. 28 Patent yellow, Turner's yellow or Montpellier yellow, is a fused sub-chloride of lead of bright yellow colour. 1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 406/2 Turner's yellow, lead oxychloride... Among its many names are..mineral yellow, Montpellier yellow, Verona yellow, patent yellow, and Cassel yellow. 2004 N. Eastaugh et al. Pigment Compend. 267/1 Some sources..state that Montpellier yellow is a ‘yellow oxide of lead’. b. Montpellier green n. now historical = verdigris green n. at verdigris n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > other pigments vert1481 verditer1505 green bice1548 sap1572 sap-green1578 terre-verte1658 verditer1665 ultramarine blue (or colour)1686 emerald1712 Prussian green1738 Saxon green1753 verditel1778 Brunswick green1790 mountain green1822 Vienna green1825 bladder-green1830 Verona green1835 mitis green1839 Paris green1847 Hooker's green1860 Guignet's green1862 emerald green1879 silk green1880 viridian1882 Cassel green1885 Milori green1885 Victoria green1890 Montpellier green1930 cadmium green1934 guaco1936 Monastral1936 1930 A. Maerz & M. R. Paul Dict. Color 185/2 An old synonym for Verdigris is ‘Montpellier Green’, from the name of the French city, which was a center for the color trade in the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance. 1969 R. Mayer Dict. Art Terms & Techniques 420/1 Other names for verdigris are Montpellier green, viride aeris..and vederame. 2004 N. Eastaugh et al. Pigment Compend. 267/1 Kühn..points out that the term Montpellier green or Montpellier verdigris was actually used generically and was not necessarily specific to verdigris manufactured in the Montpellier region alone. 5. Montpellier snake n. a moderately venomous colubrid snake of the Mediterranean region, Malpolon monspessulanus, with a predominantly brown upper body and a distinctive ridge above the eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Psammophis (hissing sand-snake) whip-snake1774 switch-snake1791 hissing sand-snake1910 Montpellier snake1913 1913 G. A. Boulenger Snakes of Europe 208 (title) Cœlopeltis monspessulana..The Montpellier snake. 1971 J. W. Steward Snakes of Europe v. 120 The Montpellier Snake is alert and agile, even though..its movements at times appear a little clumsy. 1994 C. Berthier tr. R. Bauchot Snakes 176 The smooth snake..and the Montpellier snake..are often ophiophagous, with the latter even eating members of its own species. 2014 Snakes & Other Reptiles & Amphibians (Smithsonian Nature Guide) 67 The Montpellier snake travels at great speed over rough, rocky terrain and through vegetation. It bites readily if caught. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1724 |
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