单词 | pasteque |
释义 | pastequen. Now rare. A watermelon. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible gourds > water-melon plant citrula1398 pasteque1585 watermelon1598 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > gourd > [noun] > melon > water melon pasteque1585 sandia1648 nutmeg melon1811 tsamma1886 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xviii. 21 Ther grow good Melons, Raues, and pateques. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. liv. 97/2 Ther is an other sort like Melons, called Patecas or Angurias..: they are verie waterish and hard to byte. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 184 A little kernell..like that of a Pastique, or Pumpion. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 131 The Pastaique is a Fruit very much resembling a Citrul, but not quite so big... There are two sorts of it, one red and the other white. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia ii. iii. 76 From hence [sc. Elephanta] we sailed to the Putachoes, a Garden of Melons (Putacho being a Melon)..and so to Bombaim. 1826 H. D. Best Four Years France 321 Melons and pastecs, or water-melons. 1875 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 7 344 They [sc. the vegetables of Siam] are rice,..patèques, or water-melons, melongénes, or melons, [etc.]. 1930 Chicago Tribune 22 July (Paris ed.) 3/5 For the occasion, a whole car loaded of pasteques, better known to Americans as watermelon, has been ordered from Algeria. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585 |
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