| 单词 | pré salé mutton |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspré salé mutton A salt meadow, spec. one on which sheep are reared (chiefly attributive in pré salé mutton). Hence: the flesh of sheep reared on a salt meadow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > types of mutton ram mutton1599 Welsh muttona1627 wether-mutton1707 turnip-muttona1722 marsh mutton1724 traik1802 Southdown1818 pré salé1839 Southdowner1841 tup-mutton1844 the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > salt-marsh salt marshc1000 salinec1450 salt1621 salina1697 salt-pan1785 maremma1819 shott1878 pré salé1903 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > meadow land > meadow > water-meadow wish898 ing1483 salt meadow1656 water meadow1719 water-meada1722 flow-meadow1834 pré salé1903 1839 F. A. Kemble Let. 21 July in Rec. Later Life (1882) I. 255 That peculiar close short turf which creates South Down and Pré Salé mutton. 1892 K. Prescott tr. H. de Balzac Let. in Mem. Honoré de Balzac 326 We live in the midst of a great desert, and in order to swallow a bit of beef or mutton (which is not Pré-Salé), one needs the resources and persuasions of Parisian cookery. 1903 J. M. Falkner Nebuly Coat i. 3 The low-lying meadows..where as good-tasting mutton is bred as on any pré-salé on the other side of the Channel. 1925 Times 2 Sept. 10/2 It seemed to me that everything, from chicken en casserole and pré salé mutton to fruit salad and vanilla ice, all had the same taste. 1966 P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide 48 The most vaunted type of lamb comes from flocks that feed on pastures by the sea, which gives the meat a special delicacy; this type is known as pré salé (salty meadow). 1983 Washington Post 4 Sept. e2/3 The hotel matched our expectations with a five-course meal including shellfish and pre-sale mutton. 1996 Financial Times 12 Oct. (Weekend section) 16/5 Lamb at this time of year should be..from the west coast of Scotland where autumn storms will have shaken a salt cellar over the grasslands resulting in our own version of the French pré-salé. < as lemmas |
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