| 单词 | salad basket |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalad basket salad basket n. (a) a wire basket in which superfluous moisture is shaken from the constituents of a salad after washing; (b) slang [translating French panier à salade] , a police van, ‘Black Maria’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > salad drier salad basket1906 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > prison or police van prison van1829 Black Maria1835 salad basket1906 1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxv. 1092 When a salad basket is not available, the materials should be well drained and shaken in a colander. 1962 P. Brickhill Deadline vi. 83 A row of large ‘Black Marias’, or, as I learned, ‘paniers à salade’ (salad baskets) as the French call them. 1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 54 The French cooks were already out..whirling the salad around in wire salad-baskets to dry it. 1975 H. McCutcheon Instrument of Vengeance iii. 52 There will be a salad basket here soon... What you call, I think, a Black Maria. < as lemmas |
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