单词 | pav |
释义 | pavn.1 British colloquial. 1. With the and capital initial. Originally: the London Pavilion, a celebrated music hall and theatre (now historical). In later use: any of various other performance and entertainment venues (cf. pavilion n. 3).A theatre first opened on the site of the London Pavilion in 1828. It became a cinema in 1934 and was closed for demolition in 1981. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > specific theatre nursery1664 Vic1859 pav1864 pavvy1899 national1972 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 197 Pav., the Pavilion Theatre,—sometimes called the P.V., i.e., pe-ve. 1892 Idler Mar. 127 One Saturday night, I wended my way to the ‘Pav.’. 1934 Observer 1 Apr. 18/1 That long-established landmark, the London Pavilion (better known to its habitues as ‘the Pav.’) is following the example already set it by the Empire and the Alhambra and ‘going over to the pictures’. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 28 July 12 The people who own and manage the Pav [sc. the Pavilion in Glasgow] are made of stronger stuff. Having had a bath, the old lady is now getting a facelift that will make her just as beautiful as when she began in 1902. 2003 Boston Herald (Nexis) 6 July 36 The Chieftains and Heart also hit ‘the Pav’ [sc. the FleetBoston Pavilion] this week. 2. A cricket pavilion. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > pavilion pavvy1899 pav1901 1901 To-Day 26 Sept. 266/1 The retiring victim [sc. a stumped batsman] came back to the Pav. 1932 N. Mitford Christmas Pudding v. 81 At my private..we had a most handy little cemetery for the fathers, just behind the cricket pav. 1994 Wisden Cricket Monthly June 8/3 Afterwards we waited behind the still dear and famous old pav to watch the tourists load the charabanc with their kit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pavn.2 Astronomy. The constellation Pavo. Chiefly as postmodifier, designating a star of this constellation. ΚΠ 1922 Trans. Internat. Astron. Union 1 158 The following resolutions were adopted [at the first General Assembly of the IAU]: (1) The exclusive use of the Latin names of the constellations. (2) The adoption of the three-letter abbreviations proposed by Profs. Hertzsprung and Russell for the representation of the 88 principal constellations... Pav Pavo. 1964 D. H. Menzel Field Guide Stars & Planets vi. 244 There are only two bright stars in the region, α Pav (Peacock) and α Gru (Al Na'ir). 1993 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 105 162/2 GS Pav—identification not certain. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pavn.3 colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand). = pavlova n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > other confections or sweet dishes pionade1302 spinee1381 pokerouncea1450 strawberry cream1523 pannag1540 alkermes1547 sugar-bread1587 snow1597 flammick1600 Norfolk fool1623 fool1653 chocolate cream1702 meringue1706 steeple cream1747 trifle1755 snowball1769 sweet bread1777 marrangle1809 meteor1820 mimpins1820 Nesselrode1835 meringué1845 Swiss cream1845 turban1846 coconut cream1847 panforte1865 yokan1875 bombe1892 Eton mess1896 meringue Chantilly1901 streusel1909 rocky road1920 ringocandy1922 stem ginger1922 dulce de leche1923 kissel1924 some-more1925 cream-crowdie1929 Pavlova cake1929 s'more1934 cranachan1946 sugar-on-snow1947 calavera1948 suji halwa1955 vacherin1960 zuppa inglese1961 brûlée1966 pav1966 delice1967 banoffi1974 macaroon1985 Nanaimo1991 macaron1993 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 173 Pavlova cake, a meringue sweet, sometimes shortened to pav. 1977 E. Mackie Oh to be Aussie 54 Nice to 'ave a pav after a baked dinner. Created in Melbourne in 1926 to honour the greatest pav of them all, Anna Pavlova, it's a grand finish to an Aussie meal. 1980 Herald (Melbourne) 9 Apr. 4/1 Mr Downtown, USA, settles back in his armchair..with a tinny of Foster's at his side, while the little woman whips up a pav in the kitchen. 1995 Gusto! June 51/2 The pav consisted of a soft-centred meringue filled with whipped cream and fruit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11864n.21922n.31966 |
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