单词 | salt cellar |
释义 | salt cellarn. a. A small vessel used on the table for holding salt. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > salt-cellar saltfatc1000 salera1400 salt cellar1434 salt1493 drum salt1537 trencher salt1615 scroll salt1630 trencher salt cellar1681 standing salt1826 salt-sprinkler1864 salt-stand1869 salt-shaker1895 1434 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 102 A feir salt saler of peautre with a feyre knoppe. 1445 Will in T. Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702) 434 Duas Saltsellers Argenteas. 1483 Cath. Angl. 317/2 A Salte seler. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.iiiv Take thy salte seller in thy lefte honde. 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 53 A salt celler for salt. 1633 H. Wotton Let. 3 June in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 464 I send you..a triangular Salt celler. 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. 269 A Sister..found at last a little Salt-celler in a Chest. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 27 Fold up the Table-cloth with the Salt in it, then shake the Salt out into the Salt-cellar to serve next Day. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 26 Putting down the glasses and salt-cellars as if she were knocking at the door. b. In phrases as in salt n.1 7b. ΚΠ 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. E1v You may giue any Iustice of peace, or yong Knight (if hee sit but one degree towards the Equinoctiall of the Salt-seller) leaue to pay for the wine. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 19 That which never yet afforded corn of savour to his noddle, the Salt-seller was not rubb'd. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. L5v If we can meet, and so conferre, Both by a shining Salt-seller. 1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. ix. 178 We have no salt-cellar here, to make a distinction between highest and lowest. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia I. i. i. 46 This green banquet of Nature, in which at least no man sits below the salt-cellar. c. colloquial. Each of the pronounced hollows at the base of a thin neck. (Usually with reference to young women.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [noun] > front of neck > hollow at throat pit1577 salt cellar1870 1870 O. Logan Before Footlights 26 I was a child of the most uninteresting age..a tall scraggy girl, with red elbows, and salt cellars at my collar-bones, which were always exposed, for fashion at that time made girls of this age uncover neck and arms. 1880 F. Belton Random Recoll. Old Actor vi. 87 The bones of her elbows were painfully prominent, with enormous salt-cellar hollows in her neck. 1913 O. Onions Story of Louie i. i. 25 The copper-haired girl with the long thin neck and the ‘salt-cellars’ showing through her white flannel blouse. 1913 Queen 17 May 35 (advt.) ‘Saltcellars’ and thinness of the neck and shoulders. 1917 C. Dane Regim. Women xxvii Her neck! You should see her neck—salt-cellars, literally. 1964 P. White Burnt Ones 162 She was so thin, but he loved her even for her salt-cellars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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