单词 | spoom |
释义 | spoomn. A type of sorbet containing fruit juice or wine, whipped egg white, and syrup. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > water-ice > sorbet sorbet1864 spoom1907 1907 G. A. Escoffier Guide Mod. Cookery ii. xx. 815 Spoom is a kind of Sherbet prepared from a syrup at 20°. 1929 E. J. Kollist French Pastry, Confectionery, & Sweets xii. 202 Spoom, the ingredients and preparation are the same as Sorbet. 1961 N. Froud et al. tr. P. Montagné & A. Gottschalk Larousse Gastronomique 536/1 Spooms are made from fruit juices or wines... They are served in glasses, like sherbets. 1982 N.Y. Times 24 Mar. c15/3 A menu from the Elysée Palace in honor of the King and Queen of Spain in 1905 continued for 29 courses, including something called ‘spoom of cherry brandy’, which was like a sorbet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2018). † spoomv. Obsolete. intransitive. To run before the sea, wind, etc.; to scud. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > sail before the wind scud1582 spoon1588 spoom1628 to stand down1635 to bear down1671 skid1815 to roll down to St. Helena1834 1628 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 40 By no means that we could conceiue could helpe themselues, but by spooming along before the sea. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Double Marriage ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddd2/1 We'l spare her our main top-saile... Down with the fore-saile too, we'l spoom before her. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. i. 4 If it happened the foresaid members to be..spooming with a full saile bunt faire before the winde. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 79 When vertue spoomes before a prosp'rous gale My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. 1839 ‘D. I. Moriarty’ Husband-hunter II. 119 As he skims the broad surface of the vast Atlantic, or spooms along the mighty Southern Ocean. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1907v.1628 |
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