| 单词 | blue plate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue plate blue plate adj. North American designating a meal, special, etc., consisting of a full main course (typically a meat and two or three vegetables) ordered as a single menu item. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adjective] blue plate1915 1915 State (Columbia, South Carolina) 11 Oct. 2 ‘Blue Plate Special’ is the name of a dish that is being featured on the Seaboard Air Line dining cars. It consists of a fish or meat order, with two vegetables, served on a blue dish. 1921 Washington Post 31 Oct. 3 (advt.) For dinner tonight try this Blue Plate service of ours—You'll like it. $1.50 a plate. 1945 S. Lewis Cass Timberlane (1946) xix. 112 They were taking the Blue Plate Dinner. 2004 T. C. Boyle Inner Circle Epilogue 417 My stomach is queasy from too many cups of coffee and the blue-plate special at some anonymous diner in a town I've already forgotten. < as lemmas |
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