sucriern.
A sugar-bowl, usually made of porcelain and with a cover.
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sugar-box1620
sugar-caster1676
sugar vase1848
sucrier1869
1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 9 Oct. (1911) I. 50 A Bow (sprigged) sucrier with cover and acorn top.
1904 E. Dillon Porcelain p. xxi Sèvres porcelain. Two small sucriers..Gros bleu and green ground, with birds on branches painted in white reserves.
1960 Times 18 June 11/2 But odd pieces—sucriers, cup and saucers, teapots—can be obtained at moderate cost.
1975 Country Life 4 Dec. (Suppl.) 43/1 Chelsea-Derby sucrier, c. 1770.
Draft additions 1993
2. Locally, with pronunciation /sikie/. [Probably Trinidadian French creole.] = honey banana n. at honey n. and adj. Compounds 1b(c).
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Pharaoh's fig?a1425
ensete1790
pisang1812
Lacatan1894
sucrier1911
1911 Phytopathology 1 45 About twenty years ago,..an epidemic practically wiped out this variety [sc. the ‘moko’ fig] so that now it is but rarely met with, and its place in cacao cultivations has been taken by the ‘sucrier’ or lady finger banana.
1938 Jrnl. Jamaica Agric. Soc. 42 464 Honey,..this variety is slender and grows to about the same height as the Apple but it is immune to Panama Disease. It is also known by the names Sucrier and Lady's Finger.
1961 C. W. Wardlaw Banana Dis. vi. 166 Two leaves had withered in the inoculated sucker of the Sucrier.
1986 Banana Bull. May–June 26/1 Sucrier, dessert cultivar, popular sweet variety of south east Asia.
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