单词 | pièce montée |
释义 | pièce montéen. Cookery. In French cookery: a large, ornate cake or pastry dish designed to be the centrepiece of a table; (also) any dish forming the centrepiece of a meal. Also in extended use: an ostentatious or impressive display. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > centre-piece centrepiece1784 pièce montée1820 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish > centre dish pièce montée1820 dormant1845 1820 G. A. Jarrin Ital. Confectioner xvii. 137 A Piece Montée..is an ornament to be eaten, and is to appear but once on the table; it is composed of biscuits, conserves, rock sugar, nogat, &c. fixed on a building of paste, ornamented with spun sugar, &c. 1822 R. Mudie Hist. Acct. His Majesty's Visit Scotl. iii. xii. 231 (table) The following is the list of the second course:– Cailles Rôties... Pièce Montée. Haricots Verts.] 1828 C. I. Johnstone Diversions of Hollycot vi. 138 ‘She is quite a piece-montée herself,’ said George, laughing. ‘Such an affected conceited girl, so dressed and over-dressed.’ 1858 E. T. Freedley Philadelphia & Manuf. 228 About one half of the Confectioners in Philadelphia operate in the finer branches of Ices, Jellies, Pieces Montées, &c. 1890 L. Hearn tr. ‘A. France’ Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1918) 228 That great Carême who began his treatise upon pièces montées with these words: ‘The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture—whereof the principal branch is Confectionery.’ 1940 Amer. Hist. Rev. 45 463 His absurdly elaborate pièces montées were the talk of gourmets. 1955 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xxi. 290 These acrobatics were watched by her awed friends and admiring staff who applauded the climax, a pièce montée when Elsie stood on her head. 1967 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 24 Feb. 8/1 The Piece Montee is a 70-pound standing rib roast. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 49 We wanted nothing less than to be like Carême, whose enormous pièces montées married the concepts of architecture and food. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820 |
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