单词 | port wine |
释义 | port winen. = port n.7 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > port porta1626 Oporto1691 port wine1691 porto1793 1691 R. Ames Search after Claret i. xii. 4 He had no Claret (plainly) but he had Port-Wine. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Red-fustian, Clarret or red Port-Wine. 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 292 Six dozen of bottles of Port wine. 1786 H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 102 He used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. 1836 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (ed. 2) viii. 220 In 1730 good port wine was sold in England at two shillings the bottle, and white wine of Portugal at the same price. 1887 R. Jefferies Amaryllis at Fair iii If it was to be had, a sip of port wine. 1930 H. Craddock Savoy Cocktail Bk. 192 Port Wine Sangaree..Port Wine..sugar..ice..nutmeg. 1991 Biotech Forum Europe 8 525/1 The wine industry represents a major sector with ‘Vinho do Porto’ (Port Wine), ‘Vinho Verde’ (Green Wine) and other common wines. Compounds C1. a. General attributive (usually with hyphen), as port-wine colour, port-wine poultice, port-wine tint. ΚΠ 1823 Lancet 7 Dec. 324/1 A port wine poultice was applied. 1849 R. Kane Elements Chem. (ed. 2) 217 Boracic acid and sulphuric acid both redden litmus, but the former colours it of a port-wine colour, while the latter tinges it of the red of an onion-skin. 1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 123 Of a light port-wine color. 1907 N.E.D. at Port-wine Port-wine tint. 1939 Times 28 Dec. 2/6 In place of hypochlorite one may employ a solution of permanganate of potash, using enough to bring the water to a port wine colour. 1995 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 1 f Refurbished seats and new carpeting—both done in a rich port wine color—are complemented by new curtains and wall carpeting. b. Medicine. Designating a birthmark in the form of a flat, red or purple vascular naevus, commonly affecting the face; esp. in port wine mark, port wine stain. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > birth-mark birthmark1579 longing mark1644 native note1658 signature1659 naevus1684 mother spot1690 naevus maternus1726 mother's mark1797 mother mark1822 strawberry-mark1847 birth stain1850 port wine mark1853 spider cancer1898 spider-naevus1898 spider1942 spider angioma1956 1853 Times 25 May 12/1 Diseases of the skin, including the most inveterate eruptions of the face and head, port wine face, ringworm, &c., guaranteed to be cured. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Apr. 276/1 He has what is called a port-wine mark on the back of his neck. 1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 748 The smooth, flat, ‘port-wine stains’ as they are called, sometimes covering the greater part of the face, head, or even trunk. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 391 The abnormalities of harelip..and portwine stain. 1971 Physics Bull. July 410/1 The port wine haemangioma, being frequently extensive and often involving the face, is difficult to treat surgically because of the disfiguring scar. 1991 Sci. Amer. June 58/3 Selective photothermolysis, as the technique is called, has indeed improved the treatment of port-wine stains. C2. port wine magnolia n. Australian and New Zealand an ornamental evergreen Chinese shrub, Michelia figo (family Magnoliaceae), with heavily scented cream-coloured and purple flowers, thought by some to smell of port. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > magnolias sweet bay1716 umbrella-tree1739 swamp laurel1743 magnolia1748 tulip-tree1751 beaver-tree1756 tulip-laurel1766 champakc1770 cucumber-tree1784 mountain magnolia1785 swamp sassafras1796 laurel magnolia1806 beaver-wood1810 big laurel1810 yulan1822 chatta1834 cucumber1835 port wine magnolia1943 magnolioid1988 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger viii. 86 At Lindfield there were port-wine magnolias. 1960 J. W. Matthews & B. Matthews N.Z. Garden Dict. (ed. 6) 136 Michelia... Best known species is M. fuscata (15 ft.) an attractive evergreen with inconspicuous brownish flowers. Grown for its strange but pleasant fragrance, which reminds some people of a banana, others of port wine. It is sometimes known as the port wine magnolia. 1990 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 28 Jan. (Mag. Suppl.) 44/3 The Michelia, or port wine magnolia, grows naturally into a tight bushy shape. ΚΠ 1773 in J. Clark Observ. Dis. Long Voy. ii. iii. 256 My drink was port-wine negus. 1829 W. M. Thackeray Let. 18 Apr. (1945) I. 62 I have enjoyed a glass of Port-Wine Negus tonight. 1880 Atlantic Monthly Oct. xiv. 537/2 During the evening, ice-cream, lemonade, and port wine negus, with small cakes, were handed around. Derivatives port-ˈwiner n. a person who drinks port habitually; spec. (in plural) a literary dining-club of which Dickens, Thackeray, and others were members. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking of wine > person grape-monger1606 clareteer1702 Champagne Charlie1868 port-winer1890 winer1906 1890 L. Cattermole in F. G. Kitton Charles Dickens by Pen & Pencil xiii. 178 My elder brother and I nicknamed my father's literary and artistic clique, ‘The Portwiners’, the clique consisting of Dickens, Forster, Thackeray..and other well-known personages. 1920 W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli V. ii. 67 Beauchamp..warned Disraeli that the High Church party other than ‘the old port-winers’ were holding aloof from the political contest. 1967 C. Hibbert Making of Charles Dickens 224 The ‘Portwiners’, a group of friends including Landseer and Maclise, Macready and Mark Lemon, Forster, Thackeray and Bulwer Lytton. 1990 P. Ackroyd Dickens xxii. 650 These Clapham Rise dinners—celebrated by ‘The Portwiners’, as they called themselves—were apparently very jolly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1691 |
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